Rushing Headlong to Infirmity:
Australian Defence Policy and Force Structure Development
Author: Desmond Ball
Volume 3, Number 4 (November 2007), pp. 11-27.
Abstract
This article argues that there has been a failure to articulate strategic priorities in Australian defence policy in recent years. It discusses recent intelligence failures and associated organisational reforms, capability acquisition projects of the last years, the development of the defence budget, and the loss of momentum in the transformation of the ADF for the conduct of information warfare and network-centric warfare.
About the Author
Desmond Ball is a Special Professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra. He was Head of the Centre from 1984 to 1991. desmond.ball@anu.edu.au.
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