Defence policy is of course not just concerned with guns, uniforms! and targets adorned with Chinese faces at Burnham. Professor F.L.W. Wood of Victoria University told the School that "politics in the broadest sense set the problem."Territorial integrity is not the only thing at stake either. Professor Hedley Bull from the Australian National University in Canberra, discussing Australian defence policy, argued that:

"What we want to make secure or safe is not merely our territory and right to live in it but a wide range of other values: our prosperity, our politics and social institutions, and our 'independence' [unclear: or] ability to determine our own affairs in our own way."