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Strategic Power’s Inverse Relationship to Population Increase

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Strategic Power’s Inverse Relationship to Population Increase
People in line at a supermarket in Adelaide, Australia, on Nov. 18, 2020. Brenton Edwards/AFP via Getty Images
Gregory Copley
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Australia’s unprecedented population growth in the year to March is a measure of its relative strategic decline, despite separate attempts to boost defense preparedness, which is only one measure of strategic resilience.

Gregory Copley
Gregory Copley
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Gregory Copley is president of the Washington-based International Strategic Studies Association and editor-in-chief of the “Defense & Foreign Affairs” series of publications. Born in Australia, Copley is an entrepreneur, writer, government adviser, defense publication editor, and Member of the Order of Australia. His latest and 37th book is “The Noble State: Governance Options in an Ignoble Era.”
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