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Missile ambitions are the key to our future defence

Australia’s defence strategy could survive a faltering of AUKUS submarines, but not the loss of the plan to build missiles at home.

Peter Dean and Alice Nason

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The Albanese government has now launched its guided weapons and explosive ordnance (GWEO) enterprise plan.

Though GWEO is a term little known and seldom used outside the halls of Department of Defence and industry boardrooms, it is more essential to Australia’s future security than any other single initiative.

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Professor Peter J. Dean is the Director of the Foreign Policy and Defence Program at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
Alice Nason is a Senior Research Associate in the Foreign Policy and Defence Program at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

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