Australia Planning Major Military Overhaul to Prepare for War with China
A government review of Australia’s military capability has called for Canberra to make sweeping changes to better prepare for a future conflict with China, Australia’s largest trading partner.
According to Australian media, the review has triggered “one of the greatest shifts in Australia’s military since” World War II, calling for the country to invest in more long-range missiles and drones and to boost domestic weapons manufacturing.
The Australian government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has endorsed the review and said it would increase military spending to fulfill the recommendations.
The review called China’s current military buildup the “largest and most ambitious of any country since the end of the Second World War … this buildup is occurring without transparency or reassurance to the Indo-Pacific region of China’s strategic intent.”
The review said as a consequence of China’s buildup, “for the first time in 80 years, we must go back to fundamentals, to take a first-principles approach as to how we manage and seek to avoid the highest level of strategic risk we now face as a nation: The prospect of major conflict in the region that directly threatens our national interest.”
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