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Tag Archives: Pine Gap
RICHARD TANTER. Fifty years on, Pine Gap should reform to better serve Australia.
Pine Gap has capabilities that could genuinely contribute to the defence of Australia. This would depend on the will and resolution of an Australian government capable of identifying these.
Posted in Defence/Security, International Affairs, Politics
Tagged Asia, Cold War, Defence, Defence policy, intelligence, Pine Gap, Richard Tanter, The Conversation, US foreign policy
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TONY KEVIN. The Global Strategic Landscape – present realities, and prospects under Trump. Quo vadis series.
Quo vadis – Australian foreign policy and ANZUS. Summary. Australia should call on all the nuclear weapon states – in particular, the two major arsenal-holders US and Russia – to return to the prudent protocols and courtesies of classical great … Continue reading
Posted in Defence/Security, International Affairs, Politics
Tagged classical diplomacy, information warfare, Pine Gap, Putin, Russia, strategic nuclear balance, Tony Kevin, United States
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CAVAN HOGUE. Has the alliance got us into more trouble than it has got us out of? Quo vadis series.
Quo vadis – Australian foreign policy and ANZUS. Summary. Trump does give us an opportunity to do things we should have done long ago.
Posted in Defence/Security, International Affairs, Politics
Tagged 'rules-based international order', ANZUS, ANZUS as insurance policy, Cavan-Hogue, climate change, consultation in ANZUS, East-Timor, intelligence sharing, Pine Gap, Trump presidency, west New Guinea
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ANDREW FARRAN. ANZUS – Reality check coming soon! Quo vadis series.
Quo vadis – Australian foreign policy and ANZUS. Summary. We need diplomacy of the highest order, not military interventions which, as we have seen, generally make conflict situations worse.
Posted in Defence/Security, International Affairs, Politics
Tagged Andrew Farran, ANZUS alliance, East-Timor, Five Eyes, Konfrontasi, mission creep, Pine Gap
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BINOY KAMPMARK. Des Ball: The man who sank the myth of controlled nuclear warfare
The late Professor Des Ball of the Australian National University’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre came as close as any on being a public intellectual on nuclear strategy. While some of his counterparts in the United States felt that using … Continue reading
Posted in Defence/Security, Politics, Tributes
Tagged Binoy Kampmark, Des Ball, Eureka-Street, nuclear war, Pine Gap
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HAMISH McDONALD. What really happens at Pine Gap.
Hamish McDonald wrote this article in the Saturday Paper on October 1, 2016. The paper was also a tribute to Des Ball who died recently. He was the best informed and independent commentator on Pine Gap. The following is an … Continue reading
Posted in Defence/Security, International Affairs, Media, Politics
Tagged ASIO, CIA, Five Eyes, Hamish McDonald, JSOC, Menwith Hill, Pine Gap, US Joint Special Operations Command
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MICHAEL McKINLEY. The unmooring of our national defence from our national interest. Part 2 of 4.
Australia is currently courting offence rather than, as governments so often assert, defence – a transformation which might only charitably be attributed to absent mindedness if the alternative, stealth, is excluded. It is, moreover, a change wrought, in the first … Continue reading
Posted in Defence/Security, International Affairs, Politics
Tagged Australia US alliance, Michael McKinley, Middle East, Pine Gap, US military, US politics, US Special Forces, US Special Operations
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NICK DEANE. Reflecting on Troubled Waters. South China Sea
The dispute in the South China Sea should not, legitimately, involve Australia. We are only involved because we have such close military ties with the United States. War between the US and China is not inevitable, but dangerous, military … Continue reading
Posted in Defence/Security, International Affairs, Politics
Tagged Australia-China relations, IPAN, Nick Deane, Pine Gap, South China Sea
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