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Amid heightened strategic risk posed by China and rising defence spending, Mr Marles said the times implied the need for a “significant reset” of what Australia wanted its military to do – a shift from the approach of former senior official Paul Dibb, whose reviews in the mid-1980s emphasised self-defence of the continent. “Increasingly, we are going to need to think about our Defence Force in terms of being able to provide the country with impactful projection, meaning an ability to hold an adversary at risk much further from our shores across the full spectrum of proportionate response,” Mr Marles...
