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  • 25 Jul 2017 16:40

    Talisman Sabre 17: The realisation of defence strategy

    by Greg Colton

    For the first time in more 30 years Australia has a military strategy that is beginning to truly align ends, ways and means.

  • 25 Jul 2017 14:41

    National security changes – Australian style

    by Clive Williams

    The most effective way for the DG ONI to influence agencies and their parent departments would be to have some control over the National Intelligence Community budget.

  • 25 Jul 2017 12:13

    Empathising with China

    by Iain Henry

    It is possible to both condemn China’s political system, but also accept it as an incipient great power with legitimate security concerns.

Iran

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Iranian politics nothing if not opaque

It is often difficult to make sense of Iranian electoral results. On the one hand, presidential elections feature such a narrow range of choice (the 1600-plus would-be candidates for this year's contest were whittled down by the Council of Guardians to just six, of whom two withdrew before
By Rodger Shanahan
22 May 17
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Iranians vote to continue on the path of engagement

Some 40 million Iranians took to the polls on Friday to vote for the next President of the Islamic Republic, which represented an impressive 70% turnout rate. Commentators had predicted a high voter turnout would favour the re-election of moderate incumbent Hassan Rouhani, and they were correct: he
By Alice Drury
22 May 17
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Iran's growing security problem

As Iran heads into an election on Friday with the focus on the economy, it is easy to miss the rise in temperature in Iran’s regional security environment. In late April, nine Iranian border guards were killed in Sistan-Baluchistan province as the result of an attack launched from Pakistani soil
By Rodger Shanahan
16 May 17
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