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Reforming defence.(Department of Defence)

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| April 01, 2008 | Donovan, John | COPYRIGHT 2008 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

Bureaucracy is by nature conservative, lethargic and self-perpetuating merely for its own ends, but survives as long as public opinion can be convinced to accept and support it.

--Clark G. Reynolds, Command of the Sea

ATTEMPTS TO REFORM the Defence organisation, both internal and external, have been going on since the late 1980s. Among the reform programs attempted have been the Defence Regional Support Review (DRSR), the Force Structure Review (FSR), the Defence Efficiency Review/Defence Reform Program (DER/DRP) and several headquarters and departmental restructures.

These reforms have generally tried to reduce overheads to enable improvements ...

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