Australian Defence Force
Why Australia should send more military advisers to Afghanistan
Australia has an interesting record on troop commitments over the last two decades. We have committed, withdrawn, and recommitted at an eye-watering rate. One has trouble…
Anzac Day: Remembering the soldiers on unexpected battlefields
My experience of Anzac Day probably mirrors that of a lot of Australians: some initial connection with returned diggers, then a role in their commemoration. As a very young tacker…
Australia in Iraq 2002-2010: Inconsequential, confused and timid
Recently I was asked by media to comment on a front page story in The Sydney Morning Herald about a 572 page report written by an Army official in 2010 on Australia’s…
Don’t panic: The Trump presidency and Australia's defence needs
Since the US election a range of commentators have raised the dire implications of a Trump Presidency for the globe, East Asia in general and Australia in particular.
Noting…
Analyses
The lion and the kangaroo: Australia’s strategic partnership with Singapore
While Canberra is enhancing its economic access to Southeast Asia in return for granting Singapore greater access to military training areas in Australia, Singapore’s strategic…
Commentary
Regardless of Defence White Paper, we are being out-spent and out-built by China
This piece was originally published in The Australian Financial Review.Euan Graham
Journal Articles
Australia’s 2016 Defence White Paper – Forward funded defence
In a commentary for PacNet, Euan Graham discusses Australia's latest Defence White Paper. For more from PacNet, click here.Euan Graham
Commentary
PM faces tough calls on defence
PM faces tough calls on defenceAlan DupontThe Australian20 October 2015Alan Dupont
Analyses
Full spectrum defence: Re-thinking the fundamentals of Australian defence strategy
In this Analysis, Alan Dupont argues that successive Australian governments have failed to define an effective national defence strategy. Australia needs a defence strategy that…
Commentary
Burning questions over ADF deployment to Middle East
Burning questions over ADF deployment to Middle EastJames BrownThe Saturday Paper4 October 2014Please click here for the online text.James Brown