The Tyranny of Distance Is Over: Why Australia Can No Longer Count on Geography for Safety
For over a century, Australia's defense strategy rested on one simple advantage: it was too far away to hit. A new report from the Lowy Institute argues that advantage is quietly expiring, as China fields missiles that can reach the continent from thousands of miles away.
Bottom Line
The headline isn't that China is about to strike Australia -- it isn't, and the report doesn't claim that. The real story is the slow death of an assumption: that geography alone keeps a nation safe. Once a country can no longer take its own distance for granted, every defense decision it makes changes shape.
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