Reception
The Dibb Report received a mixed response. Some experts regarded it as being an important contribution to developing an independent Australian defence posture. Other experts criticised the report for calling for an essentially defensive military strategy, implying that existing Australian military capabilities be abandoned and making optimistic assumptions about the period of time which would be available to detect and respond to new threats to Australia. Many of the Dibb Report's assumptions were used in developing the 1987 Defence white paper The Defence of Australia, but the Government did not adopt some of Dibb's key recommendations such as those concerning Australia's relationship with the United States and the Australian military's role in the Pacific.
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