Sometimes new government strategies really aren’t newsworthy. The 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS) is like that. The biggest headline from the document is the additional defense spending of A$53 billion (US$38 billion) over the next decade, which the government claims (with some accounting sleights of hand) will reach 3% of GDP. While this technically meets […]The post New Australia defense strategy ignores US elephant in the room appeared first on Asia Times.