Australia’s Strategic Defence Update 2020 sets Australia’s Defence priorities to our near region, including the South West Pacific and near north.
The Australian government has made very clear that, to defend the nation, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) must be an integrated force. This article contends that such a goal remains an unrealised ambition.
Multiple challenges are coming fast and simultaneously creating a future operational environment of unprecedented complexity. For example:
Australia is a maritime, geographically vast, technologically capable, and globally connected nation. These attributes do not guarantee effective national security, but they do provide choice, and Australia is now under increasing pressure to make the right one.
Imagining potential futures where we create advantage through collaboration.
James O’KeefeAustralian Defence Force
Introduction
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is changing.
