‘Critical’: Defence warns mining industry to prepare for war - The West Australian

ADF's public warning to the mining industry signals a shift in official threat assessment toward near-term kinetic risk in the Indo-Pacific, raising the salience of resource-supply disruption in wartime scenarios. This reflects acknowledgment that Australia's resource-export economy (Pillar 1) is vulnerable to regional conflict and may erode operational capacity (Pillar 3) if major mining facilities become contested or supply-chain targets.