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Published
La Trobe University Press, August 2023
ISBN
9781760643683
Format
Softcover, 240 pages
Dimensions
23.3cm × 15.4cm × 2cm

The Echidna Strategy Australia's Search for Power and Peace

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In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?

The Echidna Strategy overturns the conventional wisdom about Australia's security. Australia will need to defend itself without American help, but this doesn't need to cost more.

The truth, which no Australian political leader is willing to confront, is that America's security is not threatened by China's rise. Once we accept that conclusion, the entire edifice on which our security has been built crumbles, and we need to start afresh.

Yet, despite the rapid growth of China's military, defending Australia need not be particularly difficult. Our leaders insist on making it expensive and hard. Even worse, in the name of the US alliance, they expose our country to more danger.

The Echidna Strategy sheds new light on the contest for leadership in Asia and the strategy Australia needs to thrive. This includes a radically different approach to defence. Above all, it means a bolder Australian foreign policy, with three goals- leadership in the Pacific; a much stronger relationship with Indonesia; and a regional order centred on a gathering of its great powers.

'Essential reading for anyone interested in our nation's security in an uncertain world where the enduring supremacy of the United States cannot be assumed or assured.' --Malcolm Turnbull

'Here is a voice, bold in its conclusions and forensic in its logic, which defies the echo chamber of current strategic policy.' --Peter Varghese

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