The Importance of Geography

At the end of an article in which he explains why geography should matter in Australian defence policymaking, Paul Dibb resumed a long-standing duel. Citing Alan Dupont’s argument that the confines of Australia’s location should matter less and its wider interests and values rather more, Dibb’s asse...

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1. Verfasser:	Robert Ayson
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Archipelagos Command and control Continents Countries Defense policy Earth sciences Geodesy Geodetic position Geography Geologic provinces Geomorphology Geopolitics Government Human geography International politics Islands Landforms Military science Military strategy Physical sciences Political geography Political science Politics Public administration Public policy Social sciences Superpowers Territories
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Zusammenfassung:	At the end of an article in which he explains why geography should matter in Australian defence policymaking, Paul Dibb resumed a long-standing duel. Citing Alan Dupont’s argument that the confines of Australia’s location should matter less and its wider interests and values rather more, Dibb’s assessment is typically caustic: ‘explain to me’, he demands, ‘just how we are going to defend our values in Myanmar and the People’s Republic of China or our trade interests in such far-flung parts of the world as Nigeria or Argentina?’¹ But in the several years over which I was a colleague of Dibb’s