165: Australia is on offense with arms and intelligence to fend off PRC threats and provocations. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
Image: No known copyright Federal camp, Canberra, [ca. 1910s]. [between 1910 and 1920] Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Frank H. Boland collection. The surveyors' camp on Camp Hill. Persistent URL http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an23753932 Australia is on offense with arms and intelligence to fend off PRC threats and provocations. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs "Essentially, the new approach would move the Australian Defence Force (ADF) struc-ture away from coalition, expeditionary operational focus to a capacity — largely driven by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) — toward a new approach of containing any power projection of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to Australia’s north. The new approach would also help offset the delay and uncertainties surrounding the RAN’s troubled 12-vessel new submarine program, the product of the previous Government of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, which will not see a new operational submarine for the RAN for dec-ades."