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oapen-20.500.12657-336142021-11-04T14:15:18Z Struggling for Self-Reliance: Four case studies of Australian Regional Force Projection in the late 1980s and the 1990s Green, Bob australia case studies armed forces national security defenses Bougainville Island East Timor Fiji History of Bougainville Power projection bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBW Military history Military force projection is the self-reliant capacity to strike from mainland ports, bases and airfields to protect Australia’s sovereignty as well as more distant national interests. Force projection is not just a flex of military muscle in times of emergency or the act of dispatching forces. It is a cycle of force preparation, command, deployment, protection, employment, sustainment, rotation, redeployment and reconstitution. If the Australian Defence Force consistently gets this cycle wrong, then there is something wrong with Australia’s defence. This monograph is a force projection audit of four Australian regional force projections in the late 1980s and the 1990s—valid measures of competence. It concludes that Australia is running out of luck and time. The Rudd Government has commissioned a new Defence White paper. This monograph is Exhibit A for change 2013-11-18 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:52:09Z 2020-04-01T14:52:09Z 2008 book 459735 OCN: 964404920 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33614 eng Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence application/pdf n/a 459735.pdf http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/strategic-and-defence-studies-centre-sdsc-2/sfsr_citation ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_459735 10.26530/OAPEN_459735 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 171 231 Canberra open access
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Military force projection is the self-reliant capacity to strike from mainland ports, bases and airfields to protect Australia’s sovereignty as well as more distant national interests. Force projection is not just a flex of military muscle in times of emergency or the act of dispatching forces. It is a cycle of force preparation, command, deployment, protection, employment, sustainment, rotation, redeployment and reconstitution. If the Australian Defence Force consistently gets this cycle wrong, then there is something wrong with Australia’s defence.
This monograph is a force projection audit of four Australian regional force projections in the late 1980s and the 1990s—valid measures of competence. It concludes that Australia is running out of luck and time.
The Rudd Government has commissioned a new Defence White paper. This monograph is Exhibit A for change
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