Oz intelligence review: challenges and threats | The Strategist

"The L’Estrange–Merchant review spends its first chapter surveying Australia’s national security environment. It’s a six-page sprint through the abnormalities of this new international normal, arguing that Australia’s security interests have become ‘more complex, less predictable and more volatile’ because of:

changes in the balance of wealth and power in the international system
new dimensions of the interaction between economic globalisation and geopolitical power politics, particularly in the Indo-Pacific
the asymmetrical influence of non-state actors, including extremists
technological advances."