An amazing thing has happened. Our taxpayer-funded think-tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has commissioned analysis by Robert Macklin which shows that the public debate on Australia’s defence has been biased.
The public has been fed grievous underestimates of Australia’s defence capability, because discussion of our potent air capabilities has been sidelined by myopic focus on submarines. Macklin’s message is that those shrieking for Australia to increase its defence spending (ASPI itself, amongst many others) should be discounted.