Event: An Address by General Angus Campbell, Chief of the Defence Force
Lowy Institute
The Importance of Integrating Australian Statecraft
Australian security and regional security are interdependent. With the boundaries between competition, coercion and conflict becoming increasingly blurred, there is a need today for a greater integration of and nuance in the application of power. The ADF's approach to this increasing ambiguity is termed integrated campaigning. It involves military power being brought together with other elements of national power - be they economic, diplomatic, trade, financial, industrial, scientific, or informational. What is never integrated of course is sovereign decision. Held by government to apply national power in any of its forms to the pursuit of Australian national interest. Nowhere is the stress in the international system more apparent than in the current desperate fight for survival by Ukraine against Russian aggression
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