Semi-Weekly Bulletin

The Austral Peace and Security Network (APSNet) Semi-Weekly Bulletin covered critical national and regional security issues, broadly understood, in Australia and the surrounding region. Archives from 2005 until 2010.

APSNet, Semi-Weekly Bulletin

APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 23, 2009

  1. Jobs Boost From New $15b Submarine Fleet
  2. ADF Prioritises Anti-Rocket Radar System
  3. NATO Allies Reluctant to Increase Afghan Presence
  4. Obama Upholds Detainee Policy in Afghanistan
  5. Pyongyang Needs a Good Neighbour
  6. Gareth Evans: The State Of Nuclear Non-Proliferation
  7. A Strange Tale of Two Diplomats
  8. Defending the Home Front is Top Priority
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 19, 2009

  1. Australia Offers More Help, Military Training To Pakistan
  2. Is the U.S. Repeating Soviet Mistakes in Afghanistan?
  3. Secrecy and Denial as Pakistan Lets CIA Use Airbase to Strike Militants
  4. Afghan Militia Gears Up to Fight the Taliban
  5. The UN’s Lame Security Review for Timor-Leste
  6. Australia, Indonesia Discuss Free Trade
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 16, 2009

  1. Children killed in Taliban Battle
  2. Be Sure of Strategy before Committing to Afghan Surge
  3. Biden to Take up Rudd’s Nuclear Arms Push
  4. Serious Failures in $3.8bn Early Warning System
  5. Bougainville Works to Relocate ‘Climate Refugees’
  6. Obama’s Bush-Like Foreign Policy
  7. The Curious Case of the Fake Policemen
  8. Why Canberra Must Not Meddle in the Rio-Chinalco Deal
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 12, 2009

  1. Rio, Chinalco Ink $US20b Deal
  2. RI to Purchase Russian Submarine
  3. US, NATO Forces in Advanced Plans to Create Citizen Militias in Afghanistan: Reveals Leaked Email
  4. Taliban Attacks in Kabul Kill 20
  5. Pakistan Isn’t a Sideshow, It’s the Main Event
  6. Rudd Must Not Retreat From Our War Criminals
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 9, 2009

  1. Diggers Urged to Double Offensive in Afghanistan
  2. Canadian Soldiers to Target Afghan Drug Trade Linked to Taliban
  3. Japan: Defense Chief Likely to Order Antipiracy Mission in March
  4. UK: Letters Prove US Warning
  5. Pakistan Frees Nuclear Dealer in Snub to U.S.
  6. Philippines’ Power Dilemma
  7. It’s Still a Mad MAD World, But For How Much Longer?
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 5, 2009

  1. Russia says it wants to Help US in Afghanistan
  2. Required Reading on the Pakistani Taliban: Syed Saleem Shahzad
  3. RI Gets Three New Sukhoi, Vows to Strengthen Capacity
  4. Alleged Kingpin Held as Boat Stopped
  5. Jakarta Needs Overhaul in Key Locations
  6. Pledge to Safeguard Military Spending
  7. France’s Areva, India Sign Nuclear Reactor Deal
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 2, 2009

  1. China’s $12bn Asset Swoop on Miner Rio Tinto
  2. Russia-NATO Agree on Afghan Routes
  3. More Troops Not the Answer in Afghanistan
  4. Indonesia: The Bakrie Business
  5. East Timor: Freedom (Of Speech) Fighter
  6. Indonesia: Illegal Fishing by Foreigners ‘Unmanageable’
  7. Indonesia: Muhammadiyah Ready to Help Rohingyas
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 29, 2009

  1. Rudd Kept Silent on Our Nuclear Pact Role
  2. Aides Say Obama’s Afghan Aims Elevate War
  3. Russia Stops US on Road to Afghanistan
  4. Obama’s Vietnam?
  5. PM’s Line in the Sand as Pacific Forum Sets Poll Deadline
  6. Australia to Attend Key African Union Meeting
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 22, 2009

  1. Brits ‘Misled’ Diggers on Atomic Tests
  2. Joint Statement between the Indonesian National Defence Force and the Australian Defence Force on Indonesian-Australian Defence Cooperation
  3. Legitimacy of the Court’s Decision in the Case relating to the Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF)
  4. US Set To Link Aid to Progress on Terrorism
  5. U.S. Secures New Supply Routes to Afghanistan
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 19, 2009

  1. Troops to Train with Jakarta Force Once Linked to Terrorists
  2. Confusion Clouds Afghanistan Talks
  3. Timor Officials ‘Took’ $13.3 Million
  4. Secure Afghanistan
  5. Canberra Hikes Fiji Aid Relief to $3m
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