Vernon Parker Oration Australian Naval Institute 4 August 2011

摘要

In 2011 the Australian Navy can look back with some pride on 110 years of life as a national organisation and a century of existence as a modern fighting force. It has had its share of failures, but they have been outweighed by its successes. If there has been a recurring element to many of the problems it has experienced, it has to be said that many of the challenges that it faces are endemic to a Service which has such wide responsibilities - perhaps the greatest relative to any navy - in a vast, maritime-dependent nation with a small population and relatively limited resources.