War talk distorting defence priorities

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By Neil Hart*

There’s no shortage of rhetoric about Australia’s changing strategic environment, and the key thread is that the possibility of major conflict in our region can no longer be considered remote.

More likely than a great-power confrontation are operations in the ‘grey zone’, a cold war rather than a hot one. Already we’ve seen many of the hallmarks of a cold war — economic and political coercion, propaganda and espionage, cyberattacks and information activities.

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