This publication that brings together information across the full-range of Defence activity in a single, reference source. Chapters cover: Defence and strategy looking at the constitutional and legislative basis for Defence, the military justice system, Australian strategic policy and Australia's place in the world.

This collection of papers examines the process by which the international community will enable the Afghan Government to take full responsibility for its own security thereby allowing a drawdown of foreign troops. These papers resulted from an online forum of key security scholars, hosted by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. They examine the policy outcomes...

This Policy Analysis examines a coalition counter-insurgency strategy in a state of flux following a sobering campaign assessment by the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force, General Stanley McChrystal, and the deeply flawed August 20 Afghan presidential election. Mr Khosa also discusses the implications of the resulting policy debate in Washington for Australia’s military...

Right now the main focus of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) mission in Afghanistan is to raise the effectiveness of an Afghan National Army brigade so it can assume primary responsibility for security in Oruzgan Province, thereby creating the conditions for a withdrawal of Australian forces over the medium term. This effort is critical to...

Pakistan has been under unpopular military rule for the last eight years and has been marked by widespread political and religious violence in the last year. This paper examines Pakistan’s paradoxical role in the war on terror; at once a source of extremism and a key partner of the West in fighting it, as well...