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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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OPINION: The tax system will need to change, because of shifting demographics and changing nature of our economy. Will we bin the current system and change to something radical like a wealth, capital or land tax?
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Read more: Should New Zealand just tax land?
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118373157/should-new-zealand-just-tax-land
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Jared Diamond is most famous for a book published more than 20 years ago, Guns, Germs, and Steel, about why some societies are more successful than others. It won him the Pulitzer Prize.
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Read more: 'The world is in more trouble than it has ever been'
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018697832/professor-jared-diamond-the-world-is-in-more-trouble-than-it-has-ever-been
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Australia is spending 17 times more on defence than New Zealand, with a leading Defence think tank warning that New Zealand is at risk "of becoming a Western ally with Chinese characteristics".
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Read more: Australia-New Zealand alliance must boost defence ties
- Article: https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/key-enablers/1937-australia-new-zealand-alliance-must-boost-defence-ties
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