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Australian Adaptability: Ukraine’s drone war is changing warfare, can the ADF adapt fast enough to keep up? - defenceconnect.com.au
Why it matters
The article examines whether the ADF can adapt its doctrine, training, and procurement to the lessons from Ukraine's large-scale drone employment in a peer/near-peer conflict. This directly bears on pillar 3 (industrial base / platform innovation) and pillar 7 (alliance interoperability), as rapid doctrinal evolution and integration of unmanned systems will determine the ADF's effectiveness in the Indo-Pacific. The question of adaptation speed is material to Australian defence readiness against a modernising PLA.
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