Australia had to some extent anticipated the impact on strategic thinking of the September 11 terrorist attack, Defence Minister Robert Hill said yesterday. Senator Hill told a conference in Canberra that dealing with what the military called `asymmetric threats`, such as terrorism, had been anticipated in the Defence White Paper 2000. `The emerging trends and challenges identified in the White Paper and demonstrated so tragically on 11 September are likely to continue,` he said. `They have been shown to be more substantial than originally thought. Indeed, some analysts see these new challenges as the primary focus of security for now and the foreseeable future.` Full Story
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