Australia’s defence: tangle of kit, costs and complexity

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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?

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