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 11, 2010

  1. Defence chief upbeat on war
  2. War games with Burma row
  3. Reputation of Collins class subs takes a further dive
  4. Dutch mull longer Afghanistan stay at NATO request
  5. Special Operations Task Group discuss future with Afghan elders
  6. Politics go sour in Indonesia
  7. Amnesty slams Fiji’s ‘dishonest’ UN report
  8. Afghanistan Opium Winter Rapid Assessment 2010
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 8, 2010

  1. Dutch cuts hit Australia
  2. China pushes for closer military ties
  3. Japan open to nuclear arms limits
  4. [Myanmar] Nuke body baffled by junta move
  5. Logging violence and corruption flare in PNG’s Ramu forests
  6. US, Nato plan big offensive in Helmand
  7. [Singapore] S’pore to consider nuclear, coal for energy
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 4, 2010

  1. More turbulence in fighter jet program
  2. Kevin Rudd’s secret war on Iran
  3. Amnesty slams evictions near PNG mine
  4. Surprise peace talks in Canberra over Fiji diplomatic ties
  5. East Timor’s graftbuster appointed
  6. With raw recruits, Afghan police buildup falters
  7. Indonesian military ‘deeply involved’ in forest destruction: report
  8. [Malaysia] Awkward associations
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 1, 2010

  1. New submarine project warned of dirty fight
  2. Royal Australian Navy push for closer links with Asia
  3. Legislature fears impact of US military build-up in Guam
  4. NATO troops clash with Afghan allies
  5. UK summit unveils new Afghan policy
  6. U.N. envoy to Afghanistan met with Taliban
  7. A nuclear wannabe; suspicious links to North Korea; high-tech procurements and enigmatic facilities
  8. The Iraq war must not remain a closed book
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 28, 2010

  1. Defence bureaucrats fail ministers
  2. Minister blasts submarine management
  3. ‘Example’ to be made of death row Australian
  4. A reconciliation plan in Afghanistan
  5. NATO struggling to fulfill commitments for more troops in Afghanistan
  6. [Indonesia] Parties back criminal findings in bailout
  7. Iraq war was illegal, Dutch panel rules
  8. Economic and fiscal policy strategies for climate change mitigation in Indonesia
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 25, 2010

  1. Australian defence force mulls options for increased role for reservists
  2. Warships herald ‘a new era’
  3. Afghanistan to postpone elections
  4. Okinawa mayor-elect opposes U.S. base
  5. US unveils civilian strategy for Afghanistan, Pakistan
  6. Looking ahead to North Korea’s demise
  7. Govt unconcerned as critics plan protest
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 21, 2010

  1. Troops’ welfare is government’s ‘top funding priority’
  2. [Afghanistan] UN report claims bribes equal to quarter of GDP
  3. McChrystal’s plan takes a Taliban hit
  4. Gates: Al-Qaeda has assembled a ‘syndicate’ of terror groups
  5. China vents anger with missile test
  6. Korea raises its arms
  7. South Korea warns North on a first nuclear strike
  8. One Year Later: did Obama win the Iraq war?
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 18, 2010

  1. Cyber security operations centre officially opened
  2. Friends in high places a juggling act for Rudd
  3. Japan ends naval support for Afghan war
  4. SBY dismisses calls to face Century probe
  5. Elite US troops ready to combat Pakistani nuclear hijacks
  6. UK plans ‘trust fund’ to woo Taliban fighters
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 14, 2010

  1. ASIO checks unreliable: former immigration officer
  2. Continuing Indonesian military business ‘dangerous’: Human Rights Watch
  3. Obama wants $33 billion more for war
  4. The shadow war in Afghanistan
  5. Afghanistan: over 2,400 civilian deaths in 2009
  6. China’s missile test: a symbolic warning to U.S.
  7. China, India, Brazil and South Africa prepare for post-Copenhagen meeting
  8. The next arms race
  9. [Indonesia] Ministry: illegal logging skyrockets during Indonesia’s year-end enforcement break
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 11, 2010

  1. US set to lift ban on military exercises with NZ
  2. Rich nations ‘ganged up’ in Copenhagen
  3. Japan pins whale row on Gillard
  4. New Afghan cabinet picks still generate resistance
  5. China willing to spend big on Afghan commerce
  6. Renegotiating the South Korea-US nuclear pact
  7. Australia helps REDD projects in Jambi
  8. Abdurrahman Wahid, the Indonesian Republic, and dynamics in Islam
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