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Author : Paul Dibb
Publisher : Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Essays on Australian Defence written by Paul Dibb and published by Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. This book was released on 2006 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Birmingham
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921825197
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Quarterly Essay 20 A Time for War written by John Birmingham and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Time for War: Australia as a Military Power, John Birmingham ponders the Australian way of war. After East Timor and Bali, a combination of primal fear and primal ambition has transformed attitudes to our region, to security and to war as an instrument of politics. Australian defence policy has become more assertive and our armed forces are being radically restructured and hardened. Australia now has the capacity, and even the will, to act as a military power in its region. A Time for War begins with a gripping account of Operation Anaconda, the 2002 battle in Afghanistan to which Australian special forces made a crucial contribution. Birmingham also looks at our war dreaming: the sanctification of Anzac Day and the eclipse of the Vietnam Syndrome. Ranging from Sir John Monash to Peter Cosgrove, from Rudyard Kipling to The One Day of the Year, he finds that our armed forces can now do no wrong, and that politicians have taken note. The new militarism is not simply a response to September 11, he argues – it marks a deeper shift in the culture. ‘It being an RSL, we would stand each night at six o'clock for the prayer of remembrance. It was always a moving occasion, a strange suspended moment when the pokies and racing channel, the piped music and the drunken bullshitting all fell away ... Friends from overseas who witnessed the quiet ceremony never failed to be impressed. One, a poet from Czechoslovakia, had always thought Australians to be a shallow, soulless, materialistic people, but she changed her mind after her first experience of the ode to the fallen among the half-empty schooners and chip packets.’ —John Birmingham, A Time for War ‘Like many of us, Birmingham loves our warriors, but is much less sure about our wars.’ —Hugh White John Birmingham’s books include the cult memoir He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney and the fiction series Weapons of Choice. He is the author of two Quarterly Essays, Appeasing Jakarta – Australia’s Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy and A Time for War – Australia as a Military Power. He is a regular contributor to the Monthly.
Author : John McCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Dependency? written by John McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Desmond Ball
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760460141
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Geography, Power, Strategy and Defence Policy written by Desmond Ball and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Dibb AM has had an extraordinary career. He enjoys an international scholarly reputation of the highest order, while at the same time he has done much distinguished public service. He was a pioneer in moving back and forth between posts in government departments, notably the Department of Defence, and academia. He began as a student of Soviet economic geography, and then spent nearly two decades in Australian Defence intelligence, including service as Head of the National Assessments Staff (NAS) in the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) from 1974 to 1978, Deputy Director of JIO in 1978–80, Director of JIO in 1986–88, and Deputy Secretary of Defence (Strategy and Intelligence) in 1988–91, before becoming a Professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at The Australian National University (where he is now an Emeritus Professor). He has been quite happy to engage in vigorous public debate about important and controversial strategic and defence issues, giving him a high public profile. The contributors include two former Chancellors of ANU, one a former Minister of Defence, and the other a former Secretary of the Department of Defence, a former Chief of the Defence Force (CDF), and other former senior officials, as well as academic specialists in geography, international relations, and strategic and defence studies. ‘This would be a high-quality set of essays for any edited volume, but for a festschrift – a genre that sometimes generates uneven collections – this is an exceptional assembly. The individual pieces are very good; together, they have coherence and power.’ – Professor Ian Hall, Professor of International Relations, Griffith University
Author : Ron Huisken
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921313560
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)
Download or read book History as Policy written by Ron Huisken and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fortieth anniversary of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre's founding provided the opportunity to assemble many of Australia's leading analysts and commentators to review some of the more significant issues that should define Australian defence policy. ... The papers collected in this volume are not informed by a common view of where Australia should focus its defence policy, but all address themes that should figure prominently in this difficult but essential task"--Provided by publisher.
Author : James Brown
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1925435016
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Quarterly Essay 62 Firing Line written by James Brown and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going to war may be the gravest decision a nation and its leaders make. At the moment, Australia is at war with the Islamic State. We also live in a region that has become much more volatile, as China asserts itself and America seeks to hold the line. What is it like to go to war? How do we decide to go to war? Where might we go to war in the future? Will we get that decision right? In this vivid, urgent essay, James Brown looks to history, strategy and his own experience to explore these questions. He examines the legacy of the Iraq War and argues that it has prevented a clear view of Australia’s future conflicts. He looks at how we plug into the US war machine, now that American troops are based in Darwin. And he sheds fascinating light on the extraordinary concentration of war powers in the hands of the Prime Minister – and how this might go wrong. This powerful essay argues that we have not yet begun to think through the choices that may confront us in years ahead. ‘When you live in a country like ours, the dirty business of war is a stranger. That is the blessed legacy of a place where soldiers are rarely seen, and then only on parade. Where war means Anzac Day, and Anzac Days are all the same. There are few moments in modern Australia when you might pause to ask the most consequential of questions . . . What is it that we are willing to fight for?’ —James Brown, Firing Line ‘[James Brown] is a fine writer, clear and persuasive and capable of adroit tactical moves.’ —Weekend Australian ‘Brown’s survey of this complicated landscape yields some striking phrases and arresting moments. He is a natural and precise writer with a vivid sense of place.’ —Australian Book Review
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book RAAF Air Power Doctrine written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh White
Publisher : La Trobe University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743820976
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)
Download or read book How to Defend Australia written by Hugh White and published by La Trobe University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and important book about Australia’s future Can Australia defend itself in the Asian century? How seriously ought we take the risk of war? Do we want to remain a middle power? What kind of strategy, and what Australian Defence Force, do we need? In this groundbreaking book, Hugh White considers these questions and more. With exceptional clarity and frankness, he makes the case for a reconceived defence of Australia. Along the way he offers intriguing insights into history, technology and the Australian way of war. Hugh White is the country’s most provocative, revelatory and yet realistic commentator on Australia’s strategic and defence orientation. In an age of power politics and armed rivalry in Asia, it is time for fresh thinking. In this controversial and persuasive contribution, White sets new terms for one of the most crucial conversations Australia needs to have. ‘This book, by one of Australia’s leading defence policy thinkers, will be a very important contribution to our national discussion in coming years. Hugh White tackles many challenging issues and opens up the new debate that we need to have as Australia plots its course through a changing international environment.’—Robert O’Neill, former Chichele Professor of the history of war, University of Oxford ‘Hugh White is among our most knowledgeable and practised strategists. While I am strongly supportive of the US alliance, How to Defend Australia is a serious work from a serious patriot that requires close reading. It deserves a wide audience.’—Kim Beazley
Author : Desmond Ball
Publisher : Sydney ; Boston : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9780868613246
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Strategy & Defence written by Desmond Ball and published by Sydney ; Boston : Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1982 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meredith Thatcher
Publisher : Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book A National Asset written by Meredith Thatcher and published by Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Dupont
Publisher : Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Transformation Or Stagnation? written by Alan Dupont and published by Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. This book was released on 2003 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey Grey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313052328
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Last Word? written by Jeffrey Grey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official history is a misunderstood genre of historical writing, which attracts much negative comment from (non-official) historians but about which very little detail is actually known. This book examines the development of official history programs in Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand over the course of the twentieth century, looking at the ways in which they developed and the contributions each made to their respective national historiography. The second part of the work develops some themes from the first and takes the official histories of the Second World War as case studies. Drawing on programs in Australia, Britain, and the United States, these essays examine the relationship between the histories, the historians, and their sponsoring institutions. They assess the impact of the histories on historical understanding of the Second World War. They also consider the impact that contemporary events during the Cold War had on the writing of the official history.
Author : John Birmingham
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781863951340
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (513 download)
Download or read book A Time for War written by John Birmingham and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth Quarterly Essay of 2005, John Birmingham ponders the Aust ralian way of war. After East Timor and Bali, a combination of primal fear and primal ambition has transformed attitudes to our region, to security and to war as an instrument of politics. Australian defence policy has become more assertive and our armed forces are being radically restructured and hardened. Australia now has the capacity, and even the will, to act as a military power in its region. A Time for War begins with a gripping account of Operation Anaconda, the 2002 battle in Afghanistan to which Australian special forces made a crucial contribution. Birmingham also looks at our war dreaming- the sanctification of Anzac Day and the eclipse of the Vietnam Syndrome. Ranging from Sir John Monash to Peter Cosgrove, from Rudyard Kipling to The One Day of the Year, he finds that our armed forces can now do no wrong, and that politicians have taken note. The new militarism is not simply a response to September 11, he argues - it marks a deeper shift in the culture. 'It being an RSL, we would stand each night at six o'clock for the prayer of remembrance. It was always a moving occasion, a strange suspended moment when the pokies and racing channel, the piped music and the drunken bullshitting all fell away ... Friends from overseas who witnessed the quiet ceremony never failed to be impressed. One, a poet from Czechoslovakia, had always thought Australians to be a shallow, soulless, materialistic people, but she changed her mind after her first experience of the ode to the fallen among the half-empty schooners and chip packets.' - John Birmingham, A Time For War
Author : Brendan Taylor
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 981441462X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Insurgent Intellectual written by Brendan Taylor and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2012 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a distinguished career spanning more than four decades, Professor Desmond Ball is one of the world's greatest scholars of strategy and defence, Australia's home-grown giant. In this collection of essays, leading political, media and academic figures, including former United States President Jimmy Carter, pay tribute to his remarkable contributions. From a base at the Australian National University in Canberra, Professor Ball has unflinchingly researched topics from Cold War nuclear strategy and the defence of Australia to spy scandals and Southeast Asian paramilitaries. His roaming intellect, appetite for getting the facts and commitment to publishing on sensitive topics ensure he is a towering figure who has provided impeccable service to Strategic Studies, the Asia-Pacific region and the Australian community.
Author : Graeme Cheeseman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The New Australian Militarism written by Graeme Cheeseman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Marcia Langton and Chris Tremewan annotated separately.
Author : Richard Brabin-Smith
Publisher : Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Heartland of Australia's Defence Policies written by Richard Brabin-Smith and published by Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. This book was released on 2005 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Dibb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Future of Australia's Defence Relationship with the United States written by Paul Dibb and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
