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Military Strategist Mick Ryan on Australia’s Defence Strategic Review

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CHAPTER

The Positives of the Australian Defence Review

The focus force term like impactful projection will probably mean whatever people who use it to mean. I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about what balance force gives you. A balanced force makes perfect sense, not just for adaptability, but for being able to conduct joint operations. If we weaken any element of the joint force, that is what the adversary is going to focus on. The notion that all combat will take place at long range is also a fallacy. At the end of the day, if you think that all future war will just happen in the air and on water, your adversaries are going to teach you a lesson about that. It's not just us who have agency. That

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