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, March 22, 2010

  1. Report blasts hole in government’s plan to acquire new subs
  2. All-clear for nukes deal with Russia
  3. [Indonesia] Economic and defense ties on China-RI agenda
  4. As Taliban makes comeback in Kunduz province, war spreads to northern Afghanistan
  5. Policing Afghanistan: how afghan police training became a train wreck
  6. The new rules of war
  7. Australia has failed Hu in bid for open trial: expert
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, March 18, 2010

  1. Trends in US defence spending: implications for Australia
  2. Netanyahu extends an olive branch
  3. Diggers hit by Afghan bomb
  4. [Indonesia] House okays nuke plants
  5. E Timor seeks Japan’s help in training troops
  6. Indonesia: radicalisation and dialogue in Papua
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, March 15, 2010

  1. Warning on delays for fighter jets
  2. Thales in Combet sights
  3. Japan angry on nuclear shift
  4. [Indonesia] Change with a few rough edges
  5. Aussie soldiers capture senior Taliban leader
  6. East Timor threatens to scuttle gas development
  7. Nuclear weapons: arms control, proliferation and nuclear security
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, March 11, 2010

  1. Yudhoyono’s plea for better ties
  2. War on waste: ‘Defence extravagance must end’
  3. [Afghanistan] Soldiers in an absurd predicament
  4. Gates: Some troops could leave Afghanistan early
  5. The siege of the fictional city of Marja
  6. Army seeks answers for Afghan civilian deaths
  7. Japan says it allowed U.S. nuclear ships to port
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, March 4, 2010

  1. Passport probe: AFP officers in Israel
  2. Joint approach to stabilise and rebuild Afghanistan
  3. Bailout broke laws, says Indonesia’s divided house
  4. U.S. floats plan to lift ban on training Indonesia’s Kopassus unit
  5. Angelita Pires acquitted of Timorese plot to kill
  6. In Afghanistan, Karzai’s invitation to Taliban creates discord and confusion
  7. Afghan police still out of step
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, March 1, 2010

  1. Defence’s new choppers are duds: report
  2. Faulkner stands up for record
  3. Fallout over NT nuclear dump site
  4. US wants NATO to step up in Oruzgan
  5. Here to help: strengthening the Defence role in Australian disaster management
  6. In Afghanistan, U.S. plans major push into Kandahar
  7. German lawmakers approve troop increase for Afghanistan
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 25, 2010

  1. How embattled PM played ‘jihad’ card
  2. Rudd slammed on delays
  3. Nuclear subs not the answer to our needs
  4. Japan is crucial to our future
  5. Defence Department to open up on war information
  6. Dutch pull-out to change balance in Afghanistan
  7. NATO falls short in push for new trainers
  8. Afghanistan war: as civilian deaths rise, NATO says, ‘sorry’
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 22, 2010

  1. We’ll take Japan to court: PM
  2. Army’s lethal legal gap
  3. Dutch cabinet, Balkenende’s fourth, collapses
  4. Afghan push went beyond traditional military goals
  5. Fiji mends diplomatic ties with New Zealand
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 18, 2010

  1. We won’t be going nuclear: Rudd
  2. Improved Firepower for the ADF
  3. Spies work with India on sport terror threat
  4. [Indonesia] Suspicion but no smoking gun in Bank Century probe
  5. U.N. rejects ‘militarization’ of Afghan aid
  6. [Afghanistan] The meaning of Marjah
  7. [Netherlands] Labour says final ‘no’ to Afghanistan
  8. John Howard’s war: Australia’s military involvement in Iraq
  9. OSC: Afghan minority parties unenthusiastic about reconciliation with Taliban
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 15, 2010

  1. 101st Australian soldier wounded
  2. Japan, Australia to sign military logistics pact
  3. Two subs out of action for 9 years
  4. Insider reveals how Defence massages the message from Iraq and Afghanistan
  5. Raid on Taliban stronghold of Marjah a ‘success’
  6. Obama’s secret prisons
  7. Ministers clash over Nato Afghanistan letter
  8. RI tells Iran to uphold commitment
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