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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.X/5 (3 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 : Quarterly Essay
ISBN 13 : 1921825197
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)
Download or read book A Time for War written by John Birmingham and published by Quarterly Essay. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth Quarterly Essay of 2005, 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
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
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 : John McCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
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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 : Daniel Marston
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760460249
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
Download or read book War, Strategy and History written by Daniel Marston and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays in honour of eminent Professor Robert O’Neill. Each chapter was written by prominent academics and practitioners who have had a professional connection with Professor O’Neill during his long and distinguished career. The overarching themes running throughout the book are war, strategy and history. All the essays are shaped by the role that Professor O’Neill has played over the last 50 years in the debates in Australia, Europe and the US. This book covers not only Professor O’Neill’s impressive career, but also the evolution of strategy in practice, and of strategic studies as an internationally recognised academic discipline.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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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 : 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 : Australian Government - Department of Defence - Defence Publishing Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780642297020
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century written by Australian Government - Department of Defence - Defence Publishing Service and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Defence White Paper explains how the Government plans to strengthen the foundations of Australia's defence. It sets out the Government's plans for Defence for the next few years, and how it will achieve those plans. Most importantly, it provides an indication of the level of resources that the Government is planning to invest in Defence over coming years and what the Government, on behalf of the Australian people, expects in return from Defence. Ultimately, armed forces exist to provide Governments with the option to use force. Maintaining a credible defence capability is a crucial contributor to our security, as it can serve to deter potential adversaries from using force against us or our allies, partners and neighbours.
Author : Desmond Ball
Publisher : Sydney ; Boston : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9780868613161
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Strategy & Defence written by Desmond Ball and published by Sydney ; Boston : Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 402 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 : Paul Dibb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
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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 : 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 : 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.
