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… CO1191 Canberra, 8 June 1971 Secret Submission No. 107–The Strategic Basis of Australian Defence Policy, 1971 The … noted the Report of the Defence Committee entitled 'The Strategic Basis of Australian Defence Policy–1971 '.Against …
… PART 5 Canberra, 13 February 1963 Top Secret Australia's Strategic Situation 1 You hold a copy of Defence Committee Minute No. 2/63 entitled 'Australia's Strategic Position'. We are informed that this has now been … consideration of the Defence Committee's paper on the Strategic Basis of Australian Defence Policy on 7th …
… 5 May 1971 Confidential Without Submission–Communist China–Strategic Export Controls The Cabinet took up a discussion of … the view that action to give effect to the relaxation of strategic export controls now agreed upon must be approached … need to publish details of goods remaining subject to strategic controls so that Australian businessmen would know …
… 10 May 1968 NAA: A1838, TS677/3 PART '12' Top Secret Strategic Basis of Australian Defence Policy 1. The Defence … Committee this morning considered Agendum No. 12/1968, 'Strategic Basis of Australian Defence Policy, 1968' . 1 This … the need of having now a paper setting out the accepted strategic basis, even if it was to be revised soon. The …
… threat to Malaysia was also a threat to the Commonwealth Strategic Reserve military bases in Singapore and Malaya, … and New Zealand forces at present in the Commonwealth Strategic Reserve in rotation with British units? (b) … might like to incorporate units of the Commonwealth Strategic reserve in this plan. (c) Plans to deal with overt …
… a position where they will be required to disclose their strategic concept which will need to be secured in … would also need to assess the value to us of the British strategic deterrent in Polaris firing submarines. 7. The … that a British withdrawal from Singapore was a valid strategic concept for British power acting in the defence of …
… Canberra, April 1971 1 Confidential Communist China: Strategic Export Controls In decision No. 90 of 20th April, … These involve broader considerations going beyond strategic export controls and careful consideration would … export trade with the PRC, details of the goods subject to strategic export control should be published. (f) Removal of …
… our trade in steel and other such products of possible strategic significance with Communist China. The point of the … was made too difficult. By continuing to trade in non-strategic items we kept the door open for a resumption of … dealing with products that have no recognisable strategic or military significance, and the other with …
… A5619, C470 PART 2 Canberra, 22 August 1968 Top Secret The Strategic Basis of Australian Defence Policy–1968 Attached is the Report of the Defence Committee: The Strategic Basis of Australian Defence Policy–1968. 1 2. In … stating the abiding nature of the basic features of our strategic situation (paragraph 172) and discussing the …
… Australian forces and those of Indonesia. (e) In present strategic circumstances, the political and military value of maintaining the Strategic Reserve in Malaya are such that it should continue …