Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07CANBERRA539
2007-04-05 08:04:00
SECRET//NOFORN
Embassy Canberra
Cable title:
AUSTRALIA TO NEARLY DOUBLE MILITARY FORCES IN
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S E C R E T CANBERRA 000539
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STATE FOR EAP, SA, PM AND T
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/05/2017
TAGS: MOPS MARR PREL PTER AS
SUBJECT: AUSTRALIA TO NEARLY DOUBLE MILITARY FORCES IN
AFGHANISTAN
Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission Daniel A. Clune for reasons 1.4
(b)(d).
S E C R E T CANBERRA 000539
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NOFORN
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EAP, SA, PM AND T
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/05/2017
TAGS: MOPS MARR PREL PTER AS
SUBJECT: AUSTRALIA TO NEARLY DOUBLE MILITARY FORCES IN
AFGHANISTAN
Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission Daniel A. Clune for reasons 1.4
(b)(d).
1. (S/NF) Stephanie Foster, First Assistant Secretary for
International Policy, Australian Department of Defense,
advised DCM April 5 that the Government of Australia had
approved a planned deployment of Australian Defence Force
(ADF) personnel to Oruzgan Province in Afghanistan that would
nearly double ADF strength, from the current level of about
500 to almost 1,000. The GOA does not plan to publicly
announce the new deployment until April 10, and Foster asked
that we not publicly mention the decision.
2. (S/NF) The plans call for the redeployment within the next
two weeks of a Special Operations Task Group comprising
Special Air Service Regiment and other commandos that will
operate under ISAF command in Oruzgan Province, the
deployment early next year of two Chinook C-47 helicopters
with 95 support personnel, and the likely deployment of a
Mobile Control and Reporting Unit (MCRU) in July to take over
from a U.S. radar installation. (The deployment of the MCRU
is pending further confirmation.) The ADF numbers in these
three units, totalling about 600, would be in addition to a
company of 120 personnel sent to augment the Australian
Reconstruction Task Force component of the Dutch-led
Provincial Reconstruction Team in Oruzgan.
MCCALLUM
SIPDIS
NOFORN
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EAP, SA, PM AND T
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/05/2017
TAGS: MOPS MARR PREL PTER AS
SUBJECT: AUSTRALIA TO NEARLY DOUBLE MILITARY FORCES IN
AFGHANISTAN
Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission Daniel A. Clune for reasons 1.4
(b)(d).
1. (S/NF) Stephanie Foster, First Assistant Secretary for
International Policy, Australian Department of Defense,
advised DCM April 5 that the Government of Australia had
approved a planned deployment of Australian Defence Force
(ADF) personnel to Oruzgan Province in Afghanistan that would
nearly double ADF strength, from the current level of about
500 to almost 1,000. The GOA does not plan to publicly
announce the new deployment until April 10, and Foster asked
that we not publicly mention the decision.
2. (S/NF) The plans call for the redeployment within the next
two weeks of a Special Operations Task Group comprising
Special Air Service Regiment and other commandos that will
operate under ISAF command in Oruzgan Province, the
deployment early next year of two Chinook C-47 helicopters
with 95 support personnel, and the likely deployment of a
Mobile Control and Reporting Unit (MCRU) in July to take over
from a U.S. radar installation. (The deployment of the MCRU
is pending further confirmation.) The ADF numbers in these
three units, totalling about 600, would be in addition to a
company of 120 personnel sent to augment the Australian
Reconstruction Task Force component of the Dutch-led
Provincial Reconstruction Team in Oruzgan.
MCCALLUM