DARWIN, Australia — As Australia ends its longest war in Afghanistan, the army’s attention has turned to home amid growing instability in the Indo-Pacific. The re-focus comes with an increasingly assertive China advancing unlawful territorial claims, economic coercion, and foreign interference. The nation’s top soldier, Lieutenant General Rick Burr, says future army operations will target regional insecurity and humanitarian disaster relief. […]

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