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Rowan Dean

Australia’s strategic sage has guided history down the ages

Former minister Christopher Pyne has told a group of students that they might need those submarines he ordered.

The world of former defence minister Christopher Pyne was rocked to its core this week with the realisation that Australia might end up in a war with China within the next five years.

“I would have to say that the possibility is more likely than it was [when I was defence minister],” he told a group of students. “Not a cyber war, but a real one involving loss of life, destruction of military platforms, with aggressors and defenders on different sides.” Who would have guessed?

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