Struggling for self reliance
Subtitle: four case studies of Australian regional force projection in the late 1980s and the 1990s
By: Bob Breen.
Series: Canberra papers on strategy and defence -- 171; Canberra papers on strategy and defence -- 171.
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781921536083
Subjects: Australia -- Armed Forces; National security -- Australia; Australia -- Defenses -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: "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."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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