By Malcolm Davis*
The 2024 National Defence Strategy (NDS) reiterates the importance of a strategy of deterrence by denial suggested in the 2023 Defence Strategic Review. It also reiterates air, sea and land capability decisions already made to support a more hemispheric role for the ADF, in particular to counter the risk of coercion from afar in the next decade. But it hardly reinforces deterrence by denial in the shorter term—this decade. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute. The Strategist.
