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Air Power Australia Analysis
2004-01
6th November 2004
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Welcome to the Air
Power Australia Analysis series!
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The Air
Power Australia website was launched this October with the aim of
'of promoting air power in Australia, stimulating public and
parliamentary debate on air power topics, educating the community and
publishing and archiving papers and articles on air power topics'.
These are ambitious aims - air power has not been a prominent
part of the public and media debate in recent years in this country. The
active and intensive air power debate we observed during the 1990s has
largely dissipated. There is no academic or professional journal in
Australia which deals solely with air power issues. Popular and
professional aviation and defence journals cover military aviation
issues very actively, but are severely constrained in what topics can be
covered simply due to the commercial realities of constrained page
counts and public interest. The DoD studies centres are largely
constrained in what they can discuss by the internal politics of the
Department of Defence.
The Air Power Australia Analysis series will aim to plug the extant gap
in coverage by providing a vehicle for academic and professional
analysis discussion articles and papers which do not fit the parameters
of existing publications in Australia. Areas of policy, policy reform,
strategy, technological strategy and basic technology will receive
priority.
Third party contributions to this series will be reviewed by the editor
and internal reviewers and if of acceptable quality and suitable focus,
may appear in this series.
History has never treated
kindly those nations which have fallen behind their peers in the air
power game. The editor and contributors to Air Power Australia do
not wish to see Australia follow such a path - the cost to the national
interest is far too great for this to be an acceptable outcome for this
community. The purpose of the Air Power Australia Analysis series
is to turn the tide in Australia and see air power receive the priority
it deserves in the ongoing national defence debate.
Dr Carlo Kopp
Editor, Air Power Australia
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Analyses ISSN 1832-2433 |
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