1 May 2007
On 30 April 2007, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) released a report called Cutting the Cloth: New Zealand's Defence Strategy. Written by a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Jim Rolfe, it examines New Zealand's defence strategy through modernisation and change.
In a recent media release New Zealand's Defence Minister Phil Goff welcomed this independent assessment of our defence strategy, describing it as an "A pass ... for the New Zealand Defence Force". Copies of this report are twenty dollars and should be ordered directly from the ASPI site: