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Marles says the government has already flagged that it will axe programs to acquire infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled Howitzers in order to build a “more nimble Defence Force which can operate beyond our shores.”
We don’t have the transport craft which would enable the 450 planned infantry fighting vehicles to leave our shores. So unless you’re talking about Australia, the vast bulk number of those would have been stranded here. And that’s an exact example of why we need to be thinking about - what is the threat? What do we need to have a Defence Force for?
We are much more vulnerable to coercion than we’ve ever been before, and we need to be thinking about the way in which we posture our defence force to deal with that. And what that means is – we need a defence force which has a much greater power or ability to engage in projection. Because so much of what we need to do is beyond our shores.
That’s not tweaking or fiddling on the edges. That’s a significant amount of money.
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