APA - Defence Policy and Reform

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Defence Policy and Reform

Australia's Defence Policy has seen a wide range of stated and unstated shifts and changes over the last half decade. The ongoing attempts to reform internal practices in Defence have not always produced the intended results.

This website will post a selection of relevant articles, submissions and papers.

Briefings and Submissions

Defence Policy Articles and Papers

Carlo Kopp	Submission to the Minister for Defence	May 1998	Replacing the RAAF F/A-18 Hornet Fighter, Strategic, Operational and Technical Issues
Carlo Kopp	Submission to the DoD CCT	Aug 2000	A Future Force Structure for the Australian Defence Force - A Response to the Green Paper
Carlo Kopp	Air Power International	Feb 2000	Reflections upon the New Millenium ... and Current Defence Policy
Carlo Kopp	Australian Aviation	Oct 2000	Musings on the White Paper
Carlo Kopp	Australian Aviation	Oct 2000	Defence 2001 Policy Analysis (unpublished)
Carlo Kopp	Australian Aviation	Nov 2001	The War on Terrorism
Peter Goon	Air Power Australia	Jan 2005	A Farewell to Arms Revisited
Peter Goon	ADA Defender	Winter 2005	Affordability and the new air combat capability
AirCdre Garry Bates	ADA Defender	Autumn 2007	Risking the Sustainment capability of the Air Force
1 - Republished from the Winter 2005, Autumn 2007 issues of " Defender", the quarterly national journal of the Australia Defence Association, respectively, with permission.