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The 2013 Defence White Paper: Strategic Guidance Without Strategy

The 2013 Defence White Paper places greater emphasis than its predecessors on defence engagement, and begins to link regional security to the defence of Australia itself. It does not explain, however, what Australia has to do to achieve its objectives, or what commitments it would have to enter to do so. Overall, the White Paper moves towards a reinterpretation of �self-reliance� that focuses more on the way in which Australia would operate in a coalition conflict, but developing a new defence strategy that links force structure, posture and employment to the achievement of Australia�s strategic objectives is left to future White Papers

The Effect of Family Size, Sex of Siblings and Ordinal Position on Personality Characteristics

This study was designed to analyze data available at Wartburg College with respect to the effects of family variables upon MMPI scores with the purpose of suggesting hypotheses which may be tested in future investigations. The subjects were Wartburg College freshmen entering in the fall of the school years 1963 and 1964. A 5% coefficient of risk was adopted. AxB factorial designs were employed in the analysis of the data. No significant results were obtained for the female subjects on any of the MMPI scales. Four hypotheses were indicated: (a) Males from large families tend to be more introverted than males from small families; (b) males from large families show more of a tendency toward depression than males from small families; (c) in small families, males having only brothers· are generally less culturally and aesthetically inclined than those having sisters; (d) oldest males having only brothers seem to conform better socially and to have less difficulty with interpersonal relationships than other males

Some social considerations in the female portraits of Palma Vecchio.

This thesis is an investigation into the world of sixteenth-century Venice, encompassing a group of female portraits by artist Palma Vecchio. I utilized many primary and secondary sources concerning Renaissance society, including several which discussed the roles of women during the Renaissance. This thesis is divided into four chapters that discuss the purpose and evolution of the female portrait, ideal poetic beauty, and the authority the courtesan carried in both the poetry and the painting in Venice. Chapter one covers a short history of the portrait as well as an investigation of how the female portrait evolved from the profile image to the frontal three-quarter image. It also discusses how Palma Vecchio would have adhered to the early concepts of the portrait, yet came to depict women in an idealized fashion that came to be the Renaissance Venetian artist\u27s specialty. Chapter two explores the issue of poetic beauty upon the paintings of Palma Vecchio and its birth from the Humanist movement, as started by the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch. Chapter three discusses the role of the courtesan predominantly in Venice. An educated and sophisticated woman who sold sexual favors, performed a considerable role in the world of the female portrait in Venice, particularly the images by Palma Vecchio. Chapter four, the conclusion, concretizes the issues of ideal poetic feminine beauty, the courtesan in female portraiture, and how these two factors carried an enormous role not only in the female portraits of Palma Vecchio, but in the social fabric of Venice

Australia and the US nuclear umbrella : from deterrence taker to deterrence maker

Historically, Australia's approach to extended nuclear deterrence can be seen as a consumer rather than contributor within the framework of its alliance with the United States. Despite invoking the nuclear umbrella in strategic guidance since the early 1990s, successive Australian governments have been reluctant to engage with operationally supporting extended nuclear deterrence and content to point to the Joint Facilities as evidence of Australia's contribution. The changing nature of the Indo-Pacific strategic balance means that this approach is increasingly misaligned with contemporary strategic risks and Australia's evolving strategic focus on deterrence. The recent intensification of defence and force posture cooperation between Canberra and Washington presents a window of opportunity for Australia to redefine its approach to the nuclear umbrella in the context of a more holistic understanding of mutual commitments in the alliance. This article outlines how Australia should bolster its contribution through more structured dialogue with the US on nuclear strategy and mutual expectations, supporting preparation for and potential execution of US nuclear operations in the Indo-Pacific, and returning to a formal position of opposing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons