Australia mulls bigger army in face of foreign deployments
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The Australian government's national security committee has met to consider beefing up the army, which is stretched by deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Pacific.
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American allies Japan and Australia embraced a new U.S. plan to restructure its forces abroad, while Russia said it was not concerned by the proposal. But Germany, home to 70,000 U.S. soldiers, said any withdrawal from the former Cold War frontier may hurt its economy.
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Australia said it was considering signing a new security agreement with Indonesia to replace a treaty between the countries that was scrapped when Canberra sent troops into East Timor in 1999.
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Australia wants to keep around 650 Australian troops in troubled East Timor even though the United Nations envisages a much smaller international force, the foreign minister said.
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Australia's foreign minister says a UN peacekeeping force in East Timor will need more soldiers to back it up.
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CANBERRA - Australia wants to base counter-terrorism teams in Southeast Asia, the government said on Monday as it traded blows with opposition Labor over the best way to wage the war on terror ahead of an Oct. 9 election.
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Australia plans to spend nearly $300 million on new long-range missiles. The Defense Minister says the missiles, capable of hitting land and sea targets, will be carried on F/A-18 fighter jets and maritime patrol planes.
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Australia's government has admitted for the first time that its decision to participate in the Iraq conflict may have increased the terrorist threat to Australian interests.
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Plans by Australia to enforce an extensive new offshore security zone are causing concern among its neighbors. The Maritime Identification Zone announced by Prime Minister John Howard will extend 18-hundred
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The Army, strained by unrelenting violence in Iraq and operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere, is considering ways it can speed up the creation of two combat brigades while shifting personnel and equipment from other military units.
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SYDNEY : Australia said it was considering signing a new security agreement with Indonesia to replace a treaty between the countries that was scrapped when Canberra sent troops into East Timor in 1999.
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Australia says they have rejected an informal request from the United Nations to send more troops to Iraq to protect the world body&#39;s staff there.
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US President Bush is weighing an increase in the size of the military to deal with the long-term fight against terrorism.
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Australia and the United States are set to become even closer allies under proposals to allow the US military to test new-generation weaponry in Australia, a defence consultant said.
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Prime Minister John Howard has rejected suggestions Australia was adopting the role of regional &quot;sheriff&quot; in the Pacific by building up its military and police forces.
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Australia&#39;s government will spend A$591 million ($455 million) to upgrade security at its overseas missions and embassies over the next five years, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
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Australia may not want to go to war with China, but it could get dragged in by the US, writes Robert Ayson.