This is John Bachelor. I spoke with my colleague Gregory Coplay, defense and foreign affairs,

who's just returned from Australia, from his native Perth.

Gregory commenting on the new Australia defense review, guiding the future for Australia to

look to the North to defend itself from the aggression of the People's Republic of China.

To reach into the South China Sea and farther North, using long-range missiles, both air-launched

and sea-launched, to fend off the Chinese swarming out of East Asia, over Taiwan, and towards

the South China Sea, perhaps the Philippines, perhaps Japan. In other words, a war in the

Indo-Pacific. Gregory details the weapons, and then he speaks of the significance of the

fact that this new review is under the auspices of Anzis. It very much resembles the present

treaty between Australia, the United Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. At the

same time, Gregory points to the other alliance that is newborn. That's Alkus, Australia,

the United Kingdom, and the US. Here's Gregory on the immediate future in the Indo-Pacific,

and the preparation for war with China.

The acquisition of longer-range strike capabilities, which would be carried out by the Air Force

and by the Navy in particular, further into the North, further taking the fight, if you

like, out into the South China Sea and out and beyond that. They're looking at long-range

weapons. They're looking at enhancing the Air Force's already high capability with the

addition of long-range anti-ship capabilities, looking at enhancing the Navy, not just

with the nuclear submarines, but also with unmanned submarines, which would be capable of offensive

operations, and they're like adding air power supplements such as the Ghost Bat unmanned

aircraft, which would fly alongside the F-35s and F-18 Super Hornets to carry long-range

weapons further out. They're also looking at adding capabilities to the Army in its power

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