{"id":19715,"date":"2021-05-07T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19715"},"modified":"2021-05-07T20:43:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T03:43:27","slug":"conflict-with-china-a-high-likelihood-says-top-australian-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/conflict-with-china-a-high-likelihood-says-top-australian-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflict with China a \u2018high likelihood\u2019, says top Australian general"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nick McKenzie<\/a> and Anthony Galloway<\/a> – May 4, 2021<\/p>\n

One of the nation\u2019s top military commanders told his troops that Beijing is already engaged in \u201cgrey zone\u201d warfare against Australia and they must plan for the high likelihood this may spill over into actual conflict in the future.<\/p>\n

The candid and confidential briefing by Major-General Adam Findlay to Australia\u2019s special forces soldiers last year gives the most detailed insight yet made public into how the nation\u2019s top military planners view the threat of China.<\/p>\n

The then-special forces commander, who has since stepped down but who still advises the Australian Defence Force, highlighted the steps Australia\u2019s military was taking to prevent war but also described a \u201chigh likelihood\u201d that actual conflict could break out due to the unpredictable nature of foreign affairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho do you reckon the main [regional] threat is?\u201d General Findlay asked his troops and officers before answering: \u201cChina\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOK, so if China is a threat, how many special forces brigades in China? You should know there are 26,000 Chinese SOF [Special Operations Forces] personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Details of the April 2020 briefing have been obtained by The Age<\/em> and The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> from multiple sources who have requested to remain anonymous because they are not authorised to speak publicly. They say General Findlay told his troops that, if the threat of conflict was realised, the ADF needed to rely not only on traditional air, land and sea capabilities but also on Australia\u2019s ability to use cyber and space warfare.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.smh.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nick McKenzie and Anthony Galloway – May 4, 2021 One of the nation\u2019s top military commanders told his troops that Beijing is already engaged in \u201cgrey zone\u201d warfare against Australia and they must plan for the high likelihood this may spill over into actual conflict in the future. The candid and confidential briefing by Major-General … Continue reading Conflict with China a \u2018high likelihood\u2019, says top Australian general<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[269,15768,12,15770,15769,15767,11639,8],"class_list":["post-19715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-horse","tag-australia","tag-australian-defence-force","tag-china","tag-cyber-warfare","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-major-general-adam-findlay","tag-space-warfare","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-57Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19743,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19715\/revisions\/19743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}