Brendan Nicholson, Defence Editor
From:The Australian








A Spanish-designed F100 air warfare destroyer. Picture: AFP Source: AFP




WITH the Gillard government pinned down on carbon tax and asylum-seekers this week, the Coalition launched a surprise attack from the flank on the previously bipartisan issue of the size and shape of the future defence force.

Australia's opposition defence spokesman David Johnston criticised Labor's "Christmas parcels under the

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