Issue No 198 2015

Colonel Mick Lehmann has served in a variety of staff, command and operational positions in
Australia, overseas and on operations. He is a graduate of the Defence and Strategic Studies
Course, has three Masters degrees and is currently the Senior Military Advisor in the Office of
NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Notes
1 From his Second Annual Message, delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives in December 1862,
available at accessed 9 September 2015.
2 Jonathan Holslag, ‘Trapped Giant: China’s military rise’, Adelphi Papers, Vol. 50, No. 416, 2010, pp. 40-1 and
63-5.
3 Department of Defence, The Defence of Australia, Commonwealth of Australia: Canberra, March 1987, p. 13.
4 Department of Defence, Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030 (Defence White Paper 2009),
Commonwealth of Australia: Canberra, 2009, pp. 67 and 131. These concerns are also echoed in Department of
the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australia in the Asian Century White Paper, Australian Government: Canberra,
October 2012, pp. 7 and 226, albeit that document has subsequently been ‘archived’ by the current government.
5 Price Waterhouse Coopers, ‘The World in 2050: will the shift in global economic power continue?’,
PricewaterhouseCoopers [website], February 2015, p. 8, available at
accessed 6 June 2015.
6 Department of Defence, Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century, p. 131.
7 Boyd's key concept was that of the decision cycle or OODA (observe, orient, decision, action) loop, the process
by which an entity (either an individual or an organisation) reacts to an event: see, for example, ‘John Boyd
(military strategist)’, available at accessed 9
September 2015.
8 US Department of Defense, The Department of Defense Cyber Strategy, April 2015, p. 11, available at
accessed 8 May 2015.
9 US Department of Defense, The Department of Defense Cyber Strategy, p. 14.
10 US Department of Defense, The Department of Defense Cyber Strategy, p. 21.
11 Cheryl Pellerin, ‘Kendall: F-35 marks US-Australia milestone’, DoD News [website], 25 July 2014, available at
accessed 17 May 2015.
12 US Department of Defense, ‘Management of Intelligence Mission Data (IMD) in DoD Acquisition’, Directive No.
5250.01, Department of Defense [website], 22 January 2013, available at
accessed 17 May 2015.
13 Department of Defence, Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century, p. 83.
14 Christopher Joyce, ‘Interview transcript: former head of the NSA and commander of the US cyber command,
General Keith Alexander’, The Australian Financial Review [website], 8 June 2014, available at
accessed 8 May 2014.
15 Examples of the arguments of critics can be found at Thomas Rid, ‘Cyber War Will Not Take Place’, Journal of
Strategic Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, February 2012, pp. 5-32; and Martin C. Libicki, ‘Don't Buy the Cyberhype: how
to prevent cyberwars from becoming real ones’, Foreign Affairs [website], 14 August 2013, available at
accessed 6 June
2015.
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