Exclusive: Hastie urges democracies to engage in political warfare to preserve peace auspol | latikambourke
the former SAS officer said countries such as China and Russia viewed statecraft as part of a continuing revolutionary struggle.
The Liberal MP said the West had watched on passively while states such as Russia and China had weaponised "previously benign" areas such as diplomacy, media, investment flows, infrastructure development and foreign asset purchases.
"Our passivity is dangerous, so that we risk escalating tensions if we attempt to recover ground lost by subversive means. "We must take assertive diplomatic, economic and covert measures to push back against authoritarian states that undermine the global order at the very edge of peace. "This is for both moral and practical reasons. If we want to preserve peace and avoid war, we must understand our adversaries and become practitioners of hybrid and political warfare ourselves," he said.
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