The head of a think tank that has issued a report saying Australia is ill-prepared for near-term conflict has responded to criticism from Anthony Albanese by saying it was set up to deliver ‘the hard truths to the government of the day’.
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America will not compromise on national security and the economy will be subject to this imperative. Grim times are coming.
The Defence Strategic Review is a patched-together policy document, delivering no new money, a gaping wound in the Australian army, bucketloads of extra reviews and the delivery of vital equipment pushed years into the future.
The Defence Strategic Review is worthless unless Defence stops deliberately dragging the chain.
We can’t honour Australia and Australians on Anzac Day only to spend the rest of the year denigrating our country and undermining the rationale for defending it.
An Australian-developed underwater drone is firming as an option to expand Australia’s undersea military capabilities ahead of the arrival of nuclear-powered submarines.
Focus on muddy conflict in Ukraine has distracted the West from a need to build its sea power. The future of 21st-century warfare will be the battle for control of maritime trading routes.
The Defence Strategic Review missed an opportunity to suggest how Defence should support our security interests in the Pacific, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean as these regions become more contested.
Urgent long-range missile orders and the establishment of a domestic guided weapons industry will be delayed by at least 12 months for yet another Defence review.
The Defence Strategic Review’s vision of radical change and restructuring the defence force is a step in the right direction. Labor has defined the test for itself. Is it up to the job?
The $45bn plan to build all nine Hunter-class frigates has been thrown into doubt just as work is about to begin on the first block of the first warship in Adelaide.
There appears to be little to separate the Defence Strategic Review from the 2020 update and force posture plan conducted by the Morrison government.
The elevation of cyber threats recognises that in the future, wars and other conflicts will take place online as much as on land or across the seas.
Richard Marles hits back over criticism of the Defence Strategic Review being handed down on Anzac Day eve.
The Defence Strategic Review is ambitious but it does not happen in isolation. Countries such as the US and Japan are responding in similar ways to Australia.
The real victor here is the self-satisfied, heroically unhurried tradition of the Australian Defence establishment. Nothing, absolutely nothing, changes that.
A sweeping review into the nation’s strategic capabilities has warned the ADF must change its recruitment and workforce processes amid severe staffing shortages.
Anthony Albanese will launch a major shake-up of defence procurement in a bid to combat lengthy delays and budget blowouts in major defence projects as part of the Defence Strategic Review.
The ADF is vastly understaffed for its level of cyber infrastructure and contractors are too heavily relied on, the Defence Strategic Review has found, while space is looming as a new and critical area of future warfare.
A new strategic focus calls for a more lethal navy, army optimised for amphibious operations, and an air force designed to support operations to the nation’s north.
The government has flagged a redesign of the navy around greater numbers of smaller warships such as fast corvettes, in a potential blow to the $45bn Hunter-class frigate program.
The Defence Strategic Review is not nearly as sweeping in scope as the Albanese government claims and it still lacks crucial detail about what Australia‘s future defence force looks like and how we will pay for it.
The Albanese government’s response to the strategic review is a ‘smokescreen’ that won’t deliver any new strategy, Andrew Hastie says.
Australia will today embark on a historic and ambitious military journey to become a major strategic player in the most dangerous maritime region in the world.
The Albanese government will more than double funding for a new domestic guided weapons industry and fast-track the purchase of long-range Precision Strike Missiles.
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