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However, this conflict in which the United States engaged military endeavors as a way to extend its ideological reach would pull Australia into a philosophically driven war that was not really its own. As with the War on Terror, this would make Australia a peripheral target to America's many enemies.
5) if you are requested by the Australian government to review the Australia-U.S. alliance in the contemporary global context, what recommendations would you propose so as to make it more effective and better suited to serving Australia's national interests?
A primary policy objective would be to remove Australia from involvement in conflicts that are neither United Nations alliance issues or those relating to regional affairs. Such examples might be Iraq, where pressure from a powerful ally in the U.S. would provoke involvement in a war with no bearing and no threat to Australian viability or security.
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Sun Tzu . . . Is this concept of strategic thought still relevant today? Or has modern military planning and thought managed to eliminate this weakness?
This concept of disrupting the will and morale of the enemy seems less to apply to conflict today because it has become a far more frequently applied method to wage war through occupation. Current fronts in the War on Terror demonstrate that such occupation fails to break the will of the enemy when said enemy is defending his native soil. In such instances, the idea of break morale...
Mainly, the discussion hinges on the idea of nuclear deterrence as a credible security policy but leaves open the question as to the approach and methods which should be taken by Australia in terms of preventing proliferation of nuclear capabilities.
The Metz article considers military phases according to revolutionary moments where technological, strategic, political and organizational factors coalesce to produce a moment of inflection. How might Metz describe the current moment in military history relative to such an inflection point? In other words, how long ago was the most recent military revolution, what form did this revolution take and what was the impact of that revolution on the current military outlook?
Works Cited:
Metz, Steven. (2001). The Contemporary Revolution in Military Affairs. Strategists and the Revolution in Military Affairs, in the Strategists, Hugh Smith (ed.), Australian Defence Studies Centre, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, 2001, pp. 99-119.
Williams, P. (1987). Deterrence and Defence in the Nuclear Age. Nuclear Deterrence, in Contemporary Strategy. Vol. 1 Theories and Concepts, 2nd. Ed. Croom Helm, Sydney, 1987, pp. 113-39.
Works Cited:
Metz, Steven. (2001). The Contemporary Revolution in Military Affairs. Strategists and the Revolution in Military Affairs, in the Strategists, Hugh Smith (ed.), Australian Defence Studies Centre, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, 2001, pp. 99-119.
Williams, P. (1987). Deterrence and Defence in the Nuclear Age. Nuclear Deterrence, in Contemporary Strategy. Vol. 1 Theories and Concepts, 2nd. Ed. Croom Helm, Sydney, 1987, pp. 113-39.
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