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SPECIAL REPORT
Revisiting strategic assumptions at the border
By by Dr John Coyne, Head of the Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre Head of Strategic Policing and Law Enforcement Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Border agencies have long faced a complex and evolving operational context. Today, however, they’re facing an increasingly uncertain strategic environment. The dual impacts of technology change and innovative threat actors have forced operational border agencies to evolve rapidly. The long Covid pandemic, the changing geopolitical environment, and climate change
Border Security Report | March/April 2022
result in profound strategic challenges to border agencies strategic context. These challenges continue to force border agencies to rapidly respond to rolling strategic change with incomplete data support and little time to bed down change. Despite facing significant challenges, most border agencies worldwide have, over the last three
