{"id":532254,"date":"2026-03-11T01:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532254\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:45:08","slug":"gulf-deployment-exposes-australias-vulnerability-in-the-drone-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532254\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf deployment \u2018exposes Australia\u2019s vulnerability\u2019 in the drone era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Financial Review reports that Australia would struggle to defend itself against the drone and missile attacks now defining modern warfare, according to military analysts who warn the government\u2019s Middle East deployment highlights how thin the country\u2019s defence capabilities are becoming.<\/p>\n<p>The article quoted USSC Senior Adviser for Defence Strategy Professor Peter Dean&#8217;s recent report, Protecting the homeland: Accelerating ground-based air and missile defence for Australia, saying &#8220;Australia\u2019s current ground-based air defence capabilities are inadequate to meet contemporary threats and to provide for homeland defence or force protection to deployed forces.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Financial Review reports that Australia would struggle to defend itself against the drone and missile attacks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-532254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}