A Time For WarIn A Time For War: Australia as a Military Power, John Birmingham ponders the Australian way of war. After East Timor and Bali, a combination of primal fear and primal ambition has transformed attitudes to our region, to security, and to war as an instrument of politics. Australian defence policy has become more assertive, and our armed forces are being radically restructured and hardened. Australia now has the capacity, and even the will, to act as a