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Reforming defence.(Letter to the editor)

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| July 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

SIR: I write to thank Matthew French for his commentary (June 2008) on my article "Reforming Defence" (April 2008). Matthew's rank was not given, so I hope he will forgive my informality in using his first name. I suspect that he and I are actually closer in our views than first glance at his letter might indicate.

The major reform programs that I mentioned in my article (the Force Structure Review, Defence Efficiency Review/De fence Reform Program and Defence Regional Support Review) all had the objective of moving personnel from static bureaucracies into the combat elements of the ADF, to remove the hollowness of those units (which was part of the "fitted for but not with" syndrome that Matthew ...

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