Linda Reynolds seeks to accelerate AUKUS to face imaginary war

Linda Reynolds last column inside Australian It paints a picture of a world on fire, with Australia engulfed on all sides; China’s “grand strategy” includes preparing to “overwhelm Australia and destroy our military and intelligence capabilities”. And as if that wasn’t worrying enough, he warns with a rhetorical flourish: “Australians may be done with the war. But we’re not done with the war.”

At first glance, the former Morrison-era federal defense minister appears to be living, or living, in some sort of time warp. Australian Accidentally republishing something from six years ago? Why do they make noise? Sydney Morning Herald‘s “Red WarningIs it a siren from 2023, when the confident war prediction made by this newspaper’s five national security “experts” has spectacularly failed to materialize and become the subject of public ridicule?

Reynolds’ column echoes a speech he gave at the biennial Indian Ocean Defense and Strategy meeting in Perth on Tuesday…