{"id":1617,"date":"2012-10-12T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2012-10-17T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T00:13:30","slug":"defence-the-view-from-outside-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/defence-the-view-from-outside-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence: the view from outside government"},"content":{"rendered":"
Senator David Johnston, the Shadow Minister for Defence, spoke at an ASPI lunch yesterday<\/a>. His speech was titled \u2018The politics of defence\u2019, but its main theme was why defence shouldn\u2019t<\/em> be political. Along the way, he made some telling observations about the difficulty of trying to formulate sensible defence policy in opposition, with the twin handicaps of many fewer people and limited access to departmental advice.<\/p>\n