Australia will cut the purchase of new armoured vehicles in favour of long-range missiles to better deal with the Beijing threat and pivot the country’s military from a land-based fighting force to one better suited to maritime warfare.
On April 24, the Labor government received the final report from a defence review ordered in August last year and following an earlier overhaul of the Australian Defence Force under the Morrison government.
Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy said the current emphasis was on “deterrence” and a greater effort to contribute to the collective security of the region.
“We need to significantly reshape the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and how we do defence policy more generally to face that uncertainty,” he told ABC Radio….