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Defence policy-making : a close-up view, 1950-1980 : a personal memoir / Sir Arthur Tange ; edited by Peter Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tange, Arthur, author.
- Series:
- Canberra papers on strategy and defence ; 169.
- Canberra papers on strategy and defence Defence policy-making
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tange, Arthur, Sir, 1914-2001.
- Tange, Arthur.
- Australia. Department of Defence--Officials and employees--Biography.
- Australia.
- Civil service--Australia--Biography.
- Civil service.
- National security--Australia--History.
- National security.
- Australia--Military policy.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (164 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra ANU Press 2008
- Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "Sir Arthur Tange was perhaps the most powerful Secretary of the Australian Defence Department and one of the most powerful of the great 'mandarins' who dominated the Commonwealth Public Service between the 1940s and the 1970s. He served as Secretary of the Defence Department from 1970 to 1979, the last decade of his career, having previously served as Secretary of the Department of External Affairs (later renamed Foreign Affairs) from 1954 to 1965. Tange wrote this account in his last years. Controversies from his time in Defence, including those associated with 'the Tange report' and 'the Tange reforms', echo to this day, and it is still easy to identify both staunch admirers and vitriolic critics in defence and public service circles. One of the major themes implicit in this memoir is the extent to which his administrative decisions and policy advice in Defence in the 1970s were based on his experience in External Affairs in the 1950s and 1960s. This account shows what lessons he derived from that experience and how he applied those lessons when he, rather unexpectedly, became Secretary of the Defence Department."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781921313868
- 1921313862
- 9781921313851
- 1921313854
- OCLC:
- 1076751568
- Publisher Number:
- 10.26530/OAPEN_458938
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