The Greens have raised concerns about a “top-heavy” Australian Defence Force (ADF), highlighting an imbalance in the ratio of high-ranking officers to enlisted members—which they say is detrimental to recruitment and out of step with comparable militaries.
In a release, the Greens said figures compiled for them by the Parliamentary Library show the number of star-ranking officers (inclusive of Generals, Admirals, and Air Commodores) across the branches of the ADF has increased from 119 to 219 over the past two decades.
