Fed: Aust likely to do more peacekeeping: Army Chief

AAP General News (Australia)
01-14-2000
Fed: Aust likely to do more peacekeeping: Army Chief

An army chief predicts Australia's Defence Force will be engaged in more peacekeeping
operations than war in the coming decades as global instability continues.

Lieutenant-General FRANK HICKLING has told ABC Radio for now war fighting is still
the force's core business.

General HICKLING says the skills learnt for war fighting can be quickly adapted to peacekeeping.

But he says …