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The new National Defence Strategy feels written for a bygone era – and ignores the elephant in the room

  • Written by Peter Layton, Visiting Fellow, Strategic Studies, Griffith University

Sometimes new government strategies really aren’t newsworthy. The 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS) is like that.

The biggest headline from the document is the additional defence spending of $53 billion over the next decade, which the government claims (with some accounting sleights of hand) will reach 3% of GDP.

While this technically...

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