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Of Dragons, Eagles, Echidnas ... and Orcas - Australian Security and Statecraft in the Indo-Pacific

Chris Gardiner
January 2024
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This paper reviews current Australian defence strategy and policy by engaging both Roggeveen’s arguments as he lays them out in his ‘echidna strategy’ and, in the first instance, the Australian strategy and policy consensus against which he argues.

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