This article was first published in the Australian Naval Review, 2020, Issue 2, in December 2020.
Ms Melissa Conley Tyler and Mr Iain MacGillvray*
The 2020 Defence Strategic Update was unveiled to much fanfare in July.[1] Prime Minister Morrison launched the Strategic Update by comparing today’s strategic environment to the ‘existential threat we faced when the global and regional order collapsed in the 1930s and 1940s’, bringing the need to prepare for ‘a post-COVID world that is poorer, that is more dangerous, and that is more disorderly.’[2]
