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Security Challenges
Indonesia's Foreign and Security Policy

Spring 2011 Edition

The Foundation's current major research projects are:

Australia’s Future Submarine

The purpose of this study will be to examine options for Australia’s future submarine capability in light of the priorities identified in Defence in Australia in the Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030, the Defence White Paper of 2009.

Maritime Domain Awareness Study 

This study seeks to characterise the trends influencing Australia's maritime security environment as well as  indentifying emerging threats and challenges - looking forward to 2030.  It also aims to suggest possible policy and capability responses.

Protecting Australia's Maritime Border: Towards 2030

This study, undertaken at the request of Australian Customs and Border Protection, aims to characterise the trends and threats which are likely to  challenge the integrity of Australia's maritime borders looking ahead to 2030.

Global Resource Security Project

The Kokoda Foundation will undertake research into the Security implications of future global resource challenges.  High-level environmental, social and economic systems analysis highlights the risk in the medium term of growing shortages of energy, food, water and other resources.  Such shortages will pose grave threats to national international security

The Kokoda Fondation Board has several other major research projects under active consideration.

Under the Sea Air Gap: Australia’s Anti-Submarine
Warfare Challenge

In the rapidly changing regional security environment, Anti Submarine Warfare is emerging as a national interest of the highest order. Australia’s strategic geography, while generally beneficial, exposes it disproportionately to any future undersea threat. Extended sea lines of communication and offshore resource industries, upon which so much of Australia’s wealth depends, are particularly vulnerable to any future underwater attack by either state or non-state actors. The consequences of such an attack on Australia, employing submarines or submersibles, could be catastrophic in strategic, economic and environmental terms.

This study attempts to identify issues surrounding Australia’s Anti Submarine Warfare capabilities that will require greater scrutiny in the period leading up to the 2014 Defence White Paper. The context is provided by the Australian Government’s commitment to a program of ongoing rigorous and periodic reviews of the mix and scale of Australia’s defence capabilities and their appropriateness to emerging challenges in Australia’s strategic outlook.