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Memo to Joel Fitzgibbon: Why not wait for the White Paper?

Tuesday, 29 April 2008

Sam Roggeveen was a senior strategic analyst with the Office of National Assessments. He is editor of the Lowy Institute for International Policy’s blog, The Interpreter

Ordering new fighter planes before the Defence White Paper is finished is a tad premature, argues former Office of national Assessments strategist Sam Roggeveen.

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