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Australia's Evolving Defense Strategy

The Asia Chessboard

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The Army's Transformation in the Middle East

The army is being given long range land based fires for the first time. It's going to go from having an effective combat engagement range of the range of a 155 millimetre self propelled how it's out to a high Mars initially and over the longer term through its prism development pathway of the United States. The army also needs to adapt to being more marine core like I like to say in our maritime army. We're looking at a 6500 integrated air and missile defense capability system that integrates air warfare destroyers frigates land based systems as well as air force. That's a significant move to high end capability that we've had to not worry about, you know, for decades and decades

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