Can Australia defend itself by adopting the Echidna strategy?
Security & Defence PLuS Executive Director, Dr Ian Langford, joined a distinguished panel at Malcolm Turnbull’s Sovereignty & Security Forum in Canberra to debate one of the nation’s most pressing questions.
In the absence of support from America, should Australia adopt an Echidna Strategy – friendly to those who don’t mean us harm, and spikey and indigestible to those who do? This panel discussed the big question of whether Australia can defend itself’, and how. Also on the panel was Sam Roggeveen, Director at the Lowy Institute, and author of The Echidna Strategy: Australia’s Search for Power and Peace; and Major General Mick Ryan AM (Rtd), who served for 35 years in the Australian Army including in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan as well as on the US joint staff in Washington DC.
The recording has been shared as an episode on 29th Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull’s Defending Democracy podcast.
Listen here: Episode 4: Can Australia defend itself by adopting the Echidna strategy?