The Cost of Defence: ASPI Defence Budget Brief 2004-2005
The publication gives the reader greater access to the complex workings of the Defence Budget and is intended to promote informed debate on Defence budget issues.
The publication gives the reader greater access to the complex workings of the Defence Budget and is intended to promote informed debate on Defence budget issues.
This paper prepared by Aldo Borgu is a detailed assessment of the Australian Government’s decision to effectively purchase the US F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to replace its existing fleets of F/A-18 and F-111 aircraft.
It assesses whether the JSF might achieve the government’s air combat requirements against a number of factors.
The annual Cost of Defence: Defence Budget Brief provides a special insight into the workings of Defence Economics.