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Time to take the politics out of strategic planning

17 Mar 2023 | Brendan Nicholson

Former Australian defence minister Ian McLachlan has made a timely plea for genuine bipartisanship in defence planning to provide advice based on experience and to ensure continuity across successive governments. McLachlan, who was defence minister …

Australia’s armed forces must be ready for the worst

3 Mar 2023 | Brendan Nicholson

Kim Beazley recalls the 1980s when he oversaw a restructuring of Australia’s military establishment comfortable in the knowledge that no major attack was likely in the coming decade. That luxury is gone, he says. Beazley, …