Defence faces up to China threat
The integration of intelligence resources is happening at national and global levels.
The integration of intelligence resources is happening at national and global levels.
The government should offer a prize for a simple, practical design.
Defence leaders have talked for decades about the 60,000-person ADF as a balanced force, but it’s time to upend the concept.
The future submarines need to have inherent flexibility in the design to accommodate changes we don’t even know about now, as the future frigates do.
Times change and so must Australian Defence Force spending. But it’s going to cost us more to get us pointing in the right direction.
Australia’s relationship with China would benefit from a clearer declaration about what is and is not in our national interest.
We can’t usurp our national interest to appease Beijing.
Xi Jinping may think this a coup, but there are dangers ahead.
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