Kokoda Papers #16: Under The Sea Air Gap: Australia's Anti-Submarine Warfare Challenge (2011) By Brice Pacey
 
In the rapidly changing regional security environment, Anti Submarine Warfare is emerging as a national interest of the highest order. Australia’s strategic geography, while generally beneficial, exposes it disproportionately to any future undersea threat. Extended sea lines of communication and offshore resource industries, upon which so much of Australia’s wealth depends, are particularly vulnerable to any future underwater attack by either state or non-state actors. The consequences of such an attack on Australia, employing submarines or submersibles, could be catastrophic in strategic, economic and environmental terms.
This study attempts to identify issues surrounding Australia’s Anti Submarine Warfare capabilities that will require greater scrutiny in the period leading up to the 2014 Defence White Paper. The context is provided by the Australian Government’s commitment to a program of ongoing rigorous and periodic reviews of the mix and scale of Australia’s defence capabilities and their appropriateness to emerging challenges in Australia’s strategic outlook.
 
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88 pages
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