Australia’s Security: Issues for the New Century

AUSTRALIAN MILITARY

• xv, 231 p. ; 25 cm. #310823 Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-231)
• 1. The strategic revolution and its implications
• The fall of the old world order and its effects
• Shifting structure of the Asia-Pacific region
• Australia’s misjudgment of the collapse
• Australia’s strategic choices
• The nature of Australia’s strategic environment
• More heat than light?
• Control versus denial
• Getting the strategic context right
• 2. Japan: the new hub of Asia
• The postwar evolution of Japanese military power
• Limited capability of the self-defense forces
• Role of the self-defense forces
• Japan’s strategic situation
• The new strategic uncertainty
• Rearmament: pressures and obstacles
• TIs rearmament inevitable?
• The American-Japanese alliance
• ‘Division of labour’: a Pacific partnership?
• International perceptions of Japan
• The credibility of Japanese government
• Democracy and corruption
• Legacy of the ‘Greater East Asia War’
• Australian and regional perceptions
• Japan’s future international role
• Japanese peacekeeeping deployments
• A low-risk UN option for Japan
• Japan and its neighbours
• 3. Self-reliance or self-delusion?
• Warstocks and stockholding
• Defence industry: the fatal flaw in self-reliance
• The Collins submarine project
• the ANZAC frigates
• The defence exports strategy
• A record of failure
• Can defence exports be revived?
• Export data and guidelines
• Self-reliance: the unattainable goal
• 4. The decay of Australia’s American alliance
• Declining American regional power
• Diverging Australian and American interests
• Dangerous dependence
• The American facilities and intelligence
• Australian access versus Australian influence
• The future of the alliance
• 5. How much is enough? funding defence
• The democractic political context
• The decreased politican significance of defence
• Failure to meet defence funding commitments
• The need to improve defence funding management
• Restricted scrutiny of the defence budget
• The supplementation syndrome
• An appropriate level of security
• The threat context
• Realism in objectives
• Good money after bad?
• Defining a practice defence funding objective
• 6. Organising for security and defence
• Lack of a national security approach
• The ‘national security’ concept
• Reviving the national security machinery
• An Australian national security staff
• The higher defence organisation
• Issues in the integrated Defence Department
• The Utz review of 1982-83
• Fine-tuning the diarchy?
• A single chief executive officer for defence?
• The failure of strategic assessment
• 7. Security issues into the new century
• The obsolescence of Australian policy
• The failing alliance
• The delusion of self-reliance
• setting achievable security goals
• Minimised-risk defence
• Diversification
• Practical denial
• Security organisation and defence management
• How much is practicable?
• Regional engagement
• Confusing signals
• Practical regional military posture
• Engagement with Japan
• Human rights and security
• Policy issues for the next century
• annex A. Japanese defence spending trends 1955-1992
• annex B. US ‘bottom-up’ review: force reductions
• annex C. Patterns of Australian defence spending
• annex D. Security policy inquiry: terms of reference
• National security — Australia
• Australia — Military policy
• Australia — Defenses
• Australia — Military relations — Southeast Asia
• Australia — Military relations — United States