Australia's military has begun to transform itself for a new age of warfare, with the federal government on Monday endorsing the most significant shift in Australia's defence strategy since the 1980s.
Former ADF chief Sir Angus Houston and former defence minister Stephen Smith were tasked with assessing the nation's defences, and deemed the nation was not ready for the new military age — dubbed the "missile age" — the world had entered and it needed urgent re-arming.
