![]() ![]() ![]() “The ADF needs a much more focused force that can respond to the risks we face. It does not adequately address our new strategic environment,” the review stated. “The current Australian Defence Force (ADF) force structure is based on a ‘balanced force’ model that reflects a bygone era. The Defence Strategic Review also recommended the government commission a new version every two years in place of the sporadically released defense whitepapers of the past.įurthermore, it calls for a change in the military’s Defence of Australia doctrine - adhered to over the past 50 years - to one which will see a more integrated force able to respond to rapidly changing risks. The latest Defence Strategic Review takes this one step further, calling for a three-stage strategy beginning with a two-year period between now and 2025 to address “matters which must be prioritised and addressed urgently.” A second period would follow between 20, and then a third “beyond 2031.” That 2020 document acknowledged Australia’s traditionally held view that the nation would have a decade of warning time to prepare itself for conflict no longer applied. As a result, our ability to address the reduced strategic warning time identified in the 2020 Defence Strategic Update has come into sharper relief.” “Strategically, we may have already entered a decisive period for the Indo-Pacific. “As a consequence, 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,” the report read.
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