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The Royal New Zealand Navy’s maritime sustainment vessel, HMNZS Aotearoa, has sailed today from Auckland bound for South East Asia to participate in the Five Power Defence Arrangements Exercise Bersama Lima in Malaysia, alongside frigate HMNZS Te Mana.
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Read more: NZ Navy to participate in major South East Asia exercise
- Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/news/nz-navy-to-participate-in-major-south-east-asia-exercise/
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The last aircraft to join the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s latest fleet has hit the tarmac in Ōhakea.
All four Boeing P-8A Poseidon were lined up at the base on Friday marking the final chapter in what has been a five-year journey to bring the planes to New Zealand.
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Read more: P-8A Poseidon: Final aircraft joins maritime surveillance fleet
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300952255/p8a-poseidon-final-aircraft-joins-maritime-surveillance-fleet
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I read the recently released government documents on strategic foreign policy assessment, national security strategy, defence policy and strategy statement, future force design principles and the security threat environment – three times.
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Read more: Hybrid Interference – Cure Worse than the Disease?
- Article: https://unclas.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/hybrid-interference-cure-worse-than-the-disease/
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Our Royal New Zealand Air Force’s new P-8A Poseidon aircraft has been deployed on Operation Nasse for the first time.
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- Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/news/more-than-20-fishing-vessels-inspected-during-new-zealand-led-south-pacific-fisheries-patrol/
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand plans to create another intelligence agency to help the government more rapidly react to and better coordinate its response to security threats.
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Read more: New Zealand to create intel agency recommended over two years ago
- Article: https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2023/08/10/new-zealand-to-create-intel-agency-recommended-over-two-years-ago/
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The assault, capture and subsequent withdrawal from Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli between 6 and 10 August 1915 is established as a milestone in New Zealand history. Kiwi troops briefly held the heights on 8 August. The carnage numbed the country. Anzac Day was established a year later.
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Read more: National Security Strategy Documents Have Little Effect.
- Article: https://unclas.wordpress.com/2023/08/08/national-security-strategy-documents-have-little-effect/
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The ‘number 8 wire’ days for NZ’s defence force are over – new priorities will demand bigger budgets
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New Zealanders have been put on notice that defence and security are among the bigger challenges the country faces this century.
The assessment earlier this year by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Navigating a Shifting World-Te whakatere i tētahi ao hurihuri, warned “the future looks grim” geopolitically. The release last week of a new national security strategy and defence policy strategy statement underscored the urgency of the required response.
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- Article: https://theconversation.com/the-number-8-wire-days-for-nzs-defence-force-are-over-new-priorities-will-demand-bigger-budgets-211182
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"These documents represent a clear statement of intent by the New Zealand Government to step up its foreign policy and military efforts in the Pacific," one analyst told Breaking Defense.
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- Article: https://breakingdefense.com/2023/08/new-zealands-national-security-strategy-greater-regional-presence-aussie-ties-and-questions/
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