Australia’s leading domestic security chief has issued a stern warning for the country to be strong and prepared, saying the “drums of war” are beating in the region. Home Affairs Secretary Mike Pezzullo made the comments in a message to department staff on Anzac Day. He recounted speeches delivered by U.S. Generals Douglas MacArthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower. “Throughout his presidency, Eisenhower instilled in the free nations the conviction that, as long as there persisted tyranny’s threat to freedom, they must remain armed, strong and ready for war, even as they lamented the curse of war,” Pezzullo wrote. “Today, free nations continue to face this sorrowful challenge,” he added. “In a world of perpetual tension and dread, the drums of war beat—sometimes faintly and distantly, and at other times more loudly and ever closer.” “War may well be folly, but the greater folly is to wish away the curse by …