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Does Australia have a strategic direction? The benefits of strategic discontinuity. (Defence).

Quadrant

| October 01, 2001 | Ryan, Alan | COPYRIGHT 2001 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

--Antonio Gramsci, Letters from Prison (1946)

IN THE APRIL ISSUE of Quadrant, Paul Monk put twelve questions to Paul Dibb in response to Dibb's essay "A Trivial Strategic Age", which was published in the July-August 2000 issue. As anyone who follows Australia's defence debate knows, this response represented a fairly rapid turn-around for the beginning of a debate about Australia's strategic direction. Ordinarily, these exchanges wither and die as events overtake previously firmly held ...

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