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Sam Roggeveen
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“there is a temptation to think that policy and capability only work in one direction: first, we set the policy, then we develop the capability to match the policy. But it is a perverse aspect of defence policy that, once a capability exists, it will to some degree determine policy.”
― The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace
― The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace
“It is a vital necessity for Australia to remain on friendly terms with Jakarta as Indonesia fulfills its potential as a great power. Failure to do so would be strategically disastrous. An Indonesia that is both wealthy and hostile to Australia would represent the biggest challenge to our security since World War II, much more serious than the threat China presently poses. If Indonesia was our enemy, we would join Israel, South Korea and the central European states bordering Russia as some of the least secure in the world, with the highest risk of conflict.”
― The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace
― The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace
“If it is costly to resist a change in the balance of power, and if the consequences of such a change are bearable, then it is likely such a change will happen. Such is the basic logic of my argument that America will decline as a great power in the Asia Pacific. When it comes to taking on China, the costs are too high and the stakes too low.”
― The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace
― The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace
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