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Fifty years after Tange, service chiefs have lost too much authority.
Jennifer Parker | 6 March 2026 *Originally published in The Strategist on 6 March 2026 Image: Rodney Braithwaite/Department of Defence . Fifty years after the Tange reforms created the modern Australian Defence Force, Australia faces a structural problem that few are willing to confront: steady erosion of the service chiefs’ authority. Over successive reviews and reorganisations, the chiefs have kept responsibility for generating, preparing and sustaining the Royal Australia
Time to re-establish the Royal Australian Fleet Auxiliary?
13 September 2023 | Jennifer Parker *Originally published in The Strategist 13 September 2023. Link to original version. Image: M....