Australia’s Defence White Paper has a hidebound view of Asia’s future (Hugh White, ANU, East Asia Forum)

Any defence policy is ultimately based on a view of the international system and how it is expected to evolve over coming decades. These are the judgments that most fundamentally influence the nature and scale of armed conflict that a country’s forces must be prepared to fight. Australia’s new Defence White Paper makes two central judgments about this. First, that the post-Cold War, US-led international order will be maintained; and second, that it must be maintained.

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/03/08/australias-defence-white-paper-has-a-hidebound-view-of-asias-future/