Conley Tyler, M; Behm, A; Browne, B; Carter, L
(Australia Institute, 2021-07-09)
In April this year, Australians were warned by no less an expert than the former Minister for Defence, Christopher Pyne, that they may need to engage in a ‘kinetic’ war with China in the next five to ten years. This warning was followed up by a senior member of the national security bureaucracy advising Australians, in terms more ominous than bureaucrats normally use, that “the drums of war beat”.