#Australia needs to ‘do more’ to shore up defence of country’s north
Australia’s defences are in a worrying state as the threat of future conflict with #China grows. It’s so bad the #US is taking matters into its own hands.
news.com.au/technology/inn…
Australia’s defences are in a worrying state as the threat of future conflict with #China grows. It’s so bad the #US is taking matters into its own hands.
news.com.au/technology/inn…
2) Air bases that can only be accessed by dirt roads, naval facilities not fit for the future & special forces stationed thousands of kilometres away – Australia’s sparsely populated north is lacking the military muscle needed in a world of increasingly “unpredictable” conflicts.
3) That’s the view of a leading defence watcher who has said the Government needs to immediately beef-up its military capability and manpower in the country’s north given its own advisers have said war could be less than a decade away.
4) Things are so dire, according to John Coyne of think tank the Australia Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), that the US military was building its own essential infrastructure in Darwin rather than relying on Australian facilities.
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