Helen Blunden ’s Reviews > Hard New World: Australia's Post-American Future > Status Update

“That is not the biggest problem. Even more serious is that we don’t know what we are doing in defence. There is no coherent idea of what our armed forces should be built to do, and thus no clear idea of what kind of forces we need. We have no defined strategic objectives, no credible military strategy, and hence no clear basis for what capabilities to build”.

Alrighty then. We’re stuffed.

In bed with a cold, feeling crook and like someone has beaten the crap out of me but always time to read another book about our current state of the world.