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Author: Derek Cheng

A new paper outlining how New Zealand Defence will increase its attention on the Pacific is being seen as a push to ensure the region's security, as well as pushing back on influence from China.

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Article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12280076
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Category: Defence
Author: Zane Small

Defence Minister Ron Mark is hopeful China "adheres to openness and transparency" like New Zealand, as the Defence Force warns against "geostrategic competition" in the Pacific. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/10/defence-minister-ron-mark-hopes-china-adheres-to-openness-and-transparency-like-we-do.html
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New Zealand Defence Force in action, to the music of Hell March

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Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf0JGLXSmWQ
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Category: Defence
Author: New Zealand Defence Force

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) today paid tribute to thousands of its personnel who served under the United Nations flag as it marked the International Day of UN Peacekeepers.

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Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uxMv5nIQbQ
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Category: Defence
Author: New Zealand Defence Force

AT RIMPAC 2016 TE KAHA tested its live firing combat capabilities. During a live firing SINKEX (Sink Exercise) TE KAHA got its turn to attack a decommissioned US ship, giving the crew a chance to launch a Sea Sparrow missile against the ship.

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Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sNOBGJmXlE
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Category: Defence
Author: Glenn Rowlands

Browning .50 calibre machine gun shoot at dusk and night aboard a New Zealand Warship HMNZS Te Mana

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Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpXcSYQSofw
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Author: Line of Defence Magazine

The key foreign policy test for the New Zealand government during the next two years, writes former Defence Minister Wayne Mapp, is whether New Zealand can maintain the balance of its relationships with China and the United States.

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Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2019/02/20/china-challenge/
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Author: Air, Defence, Line of Defence Magazine

According to Ross Browne, Director of Triplex Consulting and a former commercial advisor to the NZDF, Defence needs to dramatically simplify its operating model. Commercialising some suitable non-tactical capabilities, he writes, offers the chance to do just that.

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Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2018/11/10/fee-for-capability/
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