Mike Pezzullo warns Australia is in ‘a position of looming peril’

Former home affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo says Australia is in “a position of looming peril”. The long-serving bureaucrat claims the ADF is “optimised for escalated low-level conflict”.  He believes Australia would struggle to defend itself in a major conflict without support from the United States.   According to Mr Pezzullo, the 2010s were a decade of turmoil where political infighting distracted from necessary defence reforms.