{"id":610403,"date":"2026-04-16T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/610403\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:27:09","slug":"do-we-have-what-is-required-to-defend-australia-in-a-more-dangerous-world-we-do-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/610403\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we have what is required to defend Australia in a more dangerous world? We do not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second iteration of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5zoco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Defence Strategy<\/a> arrives against the backdrop of conflict in the Middle East already affecting Australia\u2019s fuel, fertiliser, plastics supply and more.<\/p>\n<p>The petrol pump is a visible reminder that, as an island nation with the world\u2019s third largest exclusive economic zone, our critical vulnerability lies in our dependence on secure maritime supply chains to sustain the economy and our capacity to fight.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second iteration of the National Defence Strategy arrives against the backdrop of conflict in the Middle East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-610403","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\/610403","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=610403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}