By Graeme Dobell*
‘Strategy without money is not strategy.’ —Arthur Tange*
‘Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult.’ —Carl von Clausewitz*
Australian governments are always trying to simplify defence and rein in costs.
In Canberra’s world of inputs, outputs and deliverables, defence is the big-bucks beast that eats much and always demands more. And what, exactly, does the beast deliver for a nation that has its own continent?