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A New Defence White Paper: Moving on from the Five Circles?
Author: Stephan Frühling
Volume 3, Number 4 (November 2007), pp. 95-112.
Abstract
A new Defence White Paper needs to establish a framework that can guide coherent Australian defence and capability planning decisions. This article discusses the role of geography in defence planning and reviews the framework of Defence 2000, which is found wanting in several regards. A new set of five modified strategic objectives, as well as ways of deriving force structure principles, is proposed. The article closes with a discussion of the relevance of the concept of self-reliance in South East Asia.
About the Author
Stephan Frühling is Lecturer in Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence Program of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, and managing editor of Security Challenges. He has submitted a PhD thesis on strategic risk and defence planning, and published in Australia, Europe and the United States on ballistic missile defence, nuclear deterrence, counterproliferation, strategic theory and Australian defence policy. stephan_fruehling@hotmail.com.
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