Australia’s Digital Skills for Peace and War
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This article gives an overview of Australia's national military strategy for cyber space and the implied demands for a radical approach to development of our civil skills base. It then looks at developments in countries and groups of military interest to us in cyberspace. On this basis, the piece concludes with some recommendations for Australian policy.
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Australian Army. 2014. Future Land Warfare Report 2014. Available at: http://www.army.gov.au/~/media/Files/Our%20future/Publications/FLWR_Web_B5_Final.pdf
ACS. 2011. Australian Computer Society, Australian ICT Statistical Compendium 2011. Available at: http://www.acs.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/9307/Australian-ICT-Statistical-Compendium-2011.pdf
ACS. 2013. Australian Computer Society, Australian ICT Statistical Compendium 2013. Available at: https://acs.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/28570/Australian-ICT-Statistical-Compendium-2013.pdf
Austin, Greg. 2014. Cyber Policy in China. Cambridge: Polity Press
Chief Scientist. 2014a. “Professor Chubb Releases ‘Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: Australia’s Future’”, Press Release, Office of the Chief Scientist, Canberra, 2 September 2014. Available at: http://www.chiefscientist.gov.au/2014/09/professor-chubb-releases-science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics-australias-future/
Chief Scientist. 2014b. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: Australia’s Future, Office of the Chief Scientist 2014, Australian Government, Canberra. Available at: http://www.chiefscientist.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/STEM_AustraliasFuture_Sept2014_Web.pdf
Coalition. 2013. “The Coalition’s Policy for E-Government and the Digital Economy”. Brian Loughnane, Canberra ACT, August 2013
Dept. of Communications. 2013. Advancing Australia as a Digital Economy. Available at: http://apo.org.au/files/Resource/Advancing-Australia-as-a-Digital-Economy-BOOK-WEB.pdf.
Dept. of Defence. 2013. Defence White Paper 2013. Available at: http://www.defence.gov.au/whitepaper2013/docs/WP_2013_web.pdf
Dept. of Education. 2014a. 2013 Award Course Completions, 14 July 2014. Available at: http://docs.education.gov.au/node/35987
Dept. of Education. 2014b. Completion Rates of Domestic Bachelor Students: A Cohort Analysis, 2014, p. 15. Available at: http://docs.education.gov.au/system/files/doc/other/completion_rates_of_domestic_bachelor_students_-_a_cohort_analysis_1.pdf
Haaretz. 2014. “U.S. unveils new cyber coalition aimed at combating ISIS”, 28 October 2014. Available at: haaretz.com, http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.623096
Japan. 2013. “Cybersecurity Strategy: Towards a World-leading, Resilient and Vigorous Cyberspace”, Tokyo: Information Security Policy Council. Available at: http://www.enisa.europa.eu/activities/Resilience-and-CIIP/national-cyber-security-strategies-ncsss/JAP_NCSS2.pdf
Japan Times. 2013. “Japan, U.S. agree to beef up cybersecurity”, Japan Times, 3 October 2013. Available at: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/03/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-u-s-defense-chiefs-meet-on-cybersecurity/#.VFQKzxbgU71
Karunaratne, Neil Dias 1989. “A Rapid Informatisation Strategy for Australia: An Impact Analysis”, Economic Systems Research, Vol. 1 (4), 465-79.
Keating, Paul J. 1997. “Cyberpolities - Australia, Asia and the Information Revolution”, SUGA ‘97 Conference, Hilton Hotel, Sydney, 5 August 1997. Available at: http://www.keating.org.au/shop/item/cyberpolities-the-information-revolution---5-august-1997
PWC. 2014. Deciding with data: How data-driven innovation is fuelling Australia’s economic growth, Price Waterhouse Coopers on behalf of Google. Available at: http://www.pwc.com.au/consulting/assets/publications/Data-drive-innovation-Sep14.pdf
Reuters. 2014a. “China's Xi urges army to create strategy for information warfare”, 30 August 2014. Available at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/30/us-china-xi-defence-idUSKBN0GU0H020140830
Reuters. 2014b. Doina Chiachu, “U.S. NSA chief says monitoring tech-savvy Islamic State”, 16 September 2014. Available at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/16/us-cybersecurity-usa-islamic-state-idUSKBN0HB22A20140916
United States. 2011. “Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace”, Washington DC. Available at: http://www.defense.gov/news/d20110714cyber.pdf
United States. 2012a. “Presidential Policy Directive 20: U.S. Cyber Operations Policy”, The White House, 2012, Available at: http://fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/ppd-20.pdf
United States. 2012b. “Information Operations”, Washington DC: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, November 2012, Joint Publication 3-13, Available at: http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/new_pubs/jp3_13.pdf
Waters, Gary; Ball, Desmond; Dudgeon, Ian. 2008. Australia and Cyber-Warfare, Canberra Papers in Strategy and Defence, Australian National University ePress. Available at: http://press.anu.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/whole_book5.pdf
Watson, Chris. 2007. “Joint Information Operations: The Way Ahead”, Australian Army Journal, Vol. 4 (1), 77-98. Available at: http://www.army.gov.au/Our-future/Publications/Australian-Army-Journal/Past-editions/~/media/Files/Our%20future/LWSC%20Publications/AAJ/2007Autumn/07-JointInformationOperati.pdf
WEF. 2004. Global Information Technology Report 2003-2004, New York: Oxford University Press, for the World Economic Forum and others, 2004. Available at: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2005/11/17/000090341_20051117162002/Rendered/PDF/343090GITR2003.pdf
WEF. 2011. Global Information Technology Report 2010-2011, New York: Oxford University Press, for the World Economic Forum and others, 2011. Available at: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GITR_Report_2011.pdf
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May 24, 2020
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Austin, G. . (2020). Australia’s Digital Skills for Peace and War. Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, 2(4), 13. https://doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v2n4.266
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