The Australian Financial Review reports that Australia would struggle to defend itself against the drone and missile attacks now defining modern warfare, according to military analysts who warn the government’s Middle East deployment highlights how thin the country’s defence capabilities are becoming.
The article quoted USSC Senior Adviser for Defence Strategy Professor Peter Dean's recent report, Protecting the homeland: Accelerating ground-based air and missile defence for Australia, saying "Australia’s current ground-based air defence capabilities are inadequate to meet contemporary threats and to provide for homeland defence or force protection to deployed forces."