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The Missing Link: Politics,
Strategy and Capability Priorities
Author: Stephan Frühling
Volume 5, Number 2 (Winter 2009), pp. 41-50.
Abstract
A Defence White Paper needs to provide a clear link between political purpose in the form of strategic interests, and force structure decisions. Force 2030 tries to do so by (re)introducing the useful concept of warning time, and an operational focus on the defence of Australia to strategic guidance. However, it fails to bring these together into a coherent strategy. Specifically, it does not provide a sufficiently close link between warning and strategic outlook, it fails to justify a military strategy based on sea control, and it maintains an artificial separation of defence policy from Australia’s wider regional foreign policy.
About the Author
Dr Stephan Frühling is Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, and Managing Editor of the journal Security Challenges. His primary areas of research and publication include Australian defence planning, including A History of Australian Strategic Policy, published by the Department of Defence, strategic theory, ballistic missile defence and nuclear strategy. stephan.fruehling@anu.edu.au.
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