the Australian-led and US-backed intervention in East Timor. Following the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 and the collapse of the Suharto regime in Indonesia, Washington and Canberra shifted ...

Skip to content viewer section. In 1999, as Deputy Secretary for Strategy in the Australian Department of Defence, I had some involvement in strategic decisions about East Timor which led to the ...

He has commanded at each level from platoon, company, combat team, battalion, battle group, brigade, and joint task force, to leading 36,000 people in the Australian Army’s Forces Command. Combat ...

East Timor would prefer to work with Australia and partners Woodside Energy and Japan's Osaka Gas over Chinese firms that ...

SYDNEY--East Timor has not discussed military cooperation with China in ... unsustainable loan with too high interest payment.” Some Australian politicians expressed concern after China ...

While the broader Australian Defence Force struggles with recruitment and retention, the Army band is one of ... including in the Middle East, East Timor and Vietnam. Its operational role is ...

Ramos-Horta said East Timor has been stalling approaches from Chinese companies including state-owned Sinopec as well as Kuwaiti firms to develop the field, as it is committed to its Australian ...