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Two of the country's fastest roads are actually saving lives.
No one has died on either the Cambridge section of the Waikato Expressway, or the SH2 Tauranga Eastern Link Toll Road, since they opened just over two years ago, figures released to Stuff show.
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Read more: Waikato, Bay of Plenty, 110kmh speed limit roads prove safer than regular highways
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/117577747/waikato-bay-of-plenty-110kmh-speed-limit-roads-prove-safer-than-regular-highways
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U.S. Marines with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) Battalion and the New Zealand Army conduct Exercise Sari Bair at Waiouru Military Camp, Wanganui-Manawatu, New Zealand, October 8-12, 2019. Exercise Sari Bair is an annual live-fire training exercise to enhance warfighting skill sets.
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- Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vES6zvGe1Xg
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China is expanding its Navy's reach in the Pacific. The goal—challenge the United States for control of the world's oceans.Joining me today is Captain Jim Fanell, the former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
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Read more: China’s Plan to Conquer the Ocean
- Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro4hBjnzaAc
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In this term of government, we’ve been very busy with the defense portfolio. We’ve unveiled the Strategic Defence Policy Statement, which identified how we view the strategic environment in which we operate. Then we built on it with reports on climate change and how the New Zealand Defence Force, or NZDF, will work better in the Pacific. We’ve then used this to create the Defence Capability Plan to meet the challenges we’re facing in our strategic environment and to modernize the Defence Force.
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Read more: New Zealand’s defense minister: Shaping the future of the Defence Estate
- Article: https://www.defensenews.com/outlook/2019/12/02/new-zealands-defense-minister-shaping-the-future-of-the-defence-estate/
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“The biggest threat to security is the general lack of belief that any significant threat exists.” This was a phrase I used a lot when briefing new British Army arrivals into Northern Ireland in the mid 1980s – part of their security induction into a high threat environment.
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Read more: ‘She’ll be right’ factor is our biggest threat
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2018/08/01/shell-be-right-factor-our-biggest-threat/
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Chris Proctor, Head of Visitor Safety, Regional Facilities Auckland, presented at a recent ASIS New Zealand Chapter breakfast meeting on behaviour detection. It’s a game-changing skill, he writes, that the industry needs to be developing.
Acheiving a supply chain that gets the right equipment at the right time and in the right condition to the right person on the front line is harder than it looks, writes John Campbell MNZM, CEO of Auckland-based Ra Moana Consulting.
To say that I have learnt a lot over the last twelve months is an understatement. The most astounding thing is that I have learnt more about logistics out of uniform than I ever did while wearing one!
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Read more: From equipping the unit to equipping the force
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2020/01/02/equipping-the-force/
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Dr Peter Greener, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies (VUW) asks Commander Joint Forces New Zealand RADM James Gilmour about large-scale training exercises, overseas deployments, women in uniform, frigates, helicopters and more.
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Read more: Towards the Networked Force: An interview with CJFNZ
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/RADM-James-Gilmour-750-678x381.jpg
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OPINION: Happy New Year, reader. I'm living 2020 like I live most days.
I start with huge expectations and then give in when things get hot, before eventually settling on doing very little.
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Read more: Five radical ideas to make New Zealand fairer, better and less annoying
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/118545469/five-radical-ideas-to-make-new-zealand-fairer-better-and-less-annoying
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Dumbest thing I have read in a long time...
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