By Peter Jennings*
Scott Morrison’s speech at the launch of the defence strategic update and new force structure plan was fascinating. No fewer than four times he said that the deterioration in Indo-Pacific security was as concerning as the slide to global war in the 1930s.
In a comment not in his prepared notes, the prime minister said, ‘That period of the 1930s has been something I have been revisiting on a very regular basis, and when you connect both the economic challenges and the global uncertainty, it can be very haunting.’
