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  • 20 Mar 2023
    • China
    • China's Military
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Navy
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Defence & Security

    Australia, China, AUKUS and the squandered advantage

    Sam Roggeveen
    Canberra appears to have overlooked the tyranny of distance as its chief asset in regional military deterrence.
  • 2 Mar 2023
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • United Kingdom
    • United States

    AUKUS and intellectual property

    Naoise McDonagh , Sascha-Dominik Dov Bachmann
    In an era of economic entanglement, IP theft has the potential to threaten democracy. Governments need to be vigilant.
  • 24 Feb 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Navy
    • Australia–New Zealand
    • China-Australia Relations
    • New Zealand

    The Australia-New Zealand alliance in a war with China

    Robert Ayson
    The potential for conflict in the region should have Canberra and Wellington thinking about shared strategic risks.
  • 31 Jan 2023
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Defence & Security

    Australia’s return to must-win wars

    Peter Layton
    The future is not the past. Australia needs to reset its strategic thinking and plan to win the wars it fights.
  • 30 Nov 2022
    • India
    • Australia
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Maritime Security

    Australia–India: “Hands Across the Water”

    Justin Burke
    Naval port visits send important signals and contribute to the thriving bilateral relationship.
  • 28 Sep 2022
    • China's Military
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security

    Buying the wrong submarine

    Peter Layton
    Being able to sink ships doesn’t end a war. Australia should consider ballistic nuclear missile subs as an alternative.
  • 17 Mar 2022
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Defence’s bullet for disaster isn’t silver, it’s brass

    Miranda Booth
    Rushing in with troops in emergency response could make matters worse at home and muddle efforts to engage the region.
  • 28 Sep 2021
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Navy
    • Australia's Defence Challenges

    AUKUS and the nuclear non-proliferation regime

    Cathy Moloney
    Australia’s new trilateral agreement and its hard-won nuclear grand bargain. 
  • 20 Sep 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australia
    • Technology
    • International law

    The law when putting autonomous military platforms on a shopping list

    Eve Massingham
    The fear of rogue killer robots looms large but legal questions go well beyond the pointy end.
  • 20 Sep 2021
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Navy

    Australia’s wartime seaborne trade: insights from before

    Peter Layton
    The cargo, not the ships, should guide Australia’s responses to potential threats against seaborne trade and supply.
  • 30 Aug 2021
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • China's Military
    • Australia's Defence Challenges

    Sharpening deterrence

    Ben Scott
    The language around the who, what and how of Australia’s defence strategy needs an overhaul.
  • 27 Aug 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Maritime Security
    • China's Military
    • Australian Navy

    Australia’s seaborne trade: Essential but undefendable

    Hugh White
    Recognising the limits to Australia’s military potential.
  • 25 Aug 2021
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australia

    The new citizen soldier

    Cate Carter
    Recent events have seen a modern Australian military member emerging – vocal, humanitarian and politically active.
  • 4 Aug 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Preparing Australia to respond to disasters – at home and abroad

    Peter Layton
    The military should be restructured with a dedicated element to better tackle relief operations full-time.
  • 1 Mar 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australia
    • International law

    How far would Australia go in defence of the rules-based order?

    Sam Roggeveen
    The way the defence force is structured and the weapons deployed sends a message beyond the words.
  • 7 Dec 2020
    • Defence & Security
    • Afghanistan War
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australia

    The Afghan inquiry and the question of responsibility

    Rodger Shanahan
    Agitating for a big scalp only distracts from reflecting on what the Brereton report actually uncovered.
  • 20 Nov 2020
    • Defence & Security
    • Afghanistan War
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Afghanistan
    • Australia

    Australia’s mission in Afghanistan – what was it again?

    Daniel Flitton
    Nothing can reduce the responsibility of individuals. But the political context for a “forever war” is relevant, too.
  • 20 Jul 2020
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australia

    Hidden gems in the 2020 Force Structure Plan

    Victor Abramowicz
    Defence’s $270 billion shopping list has some surprising inclusions.
  • 14 Jul 2020
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australia

    A high-risk, low-reward defence posture

    Victor Abramowicz
    What exactly does Australia showing “willingness” to use force look like? And where does it lead?
  • 20 Feb 2020
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force

    Being one of the boys in the military

    Cate Carter
    Advancement in women’s participation in the armed forces is oversimplifying the way we see diversity.
  • 13 Jan 2020
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Technology

    Australia’s new strategic geography

    Mark O'Neill
    The “sea-air gap” has collapsed amid the proliferation of technologies that are agnostic about distance and domain.
  • 25 Nov 2019
    • Australian Defence Force

    Australian civil-military relations: Who guards the guardians?

    Cate Carter
    Debate about responsibility to support serving and former soldiers shows some feel abandoned as cultural norms shift.
  • 11 Nov 2019
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Air Force

    Australia’s F-35s: Lessons from a problematic purchase

    Peter Layton
    The rush nearly 20 years ago to buy the fighter of the future exposed fundamental shortcomings in defence acquisitions.
  • 20 Sep 2019
    • Australian Defence Force
    • United Nations
    • Timor-Leste

    INTERFET and the defence of Australia

    Luke Gosling
    The 1999 mission shaped not only Timor-Leste’s recent history, but also Australia’s post–Cold War trajectory.
  • 4 Sep 2019
    • Australian Defence Force

    You can’t always get what you want, but you can get what you need

    Victor Abramowicz
    If Australia must spend more on the military, there is no point buying a Ferrari when a Toyota will do.
  • 27 Mar 2019
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force

    Mobilising Defence in the “fourth industrial revolution”

    Peter Layton
    Information technology advances could revolutionise supply chains and logistics – if the ADF can seize the chance.
  • 9 Nov 2017
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • US Navy
    • Australian Defence Force
    • India's Navy
    • India-Australia Relations
    • South China Sea
    • India
    • Japan

    A reborn quadrilateral to deter China

    John Hemmings
    Organising a loose strategic coalition might upset Beijing, but that's no reason not to forge ahead.
  • 30 Oct 2017
    • Australian Defence Force

    Time to fast-forward the Future Submarine

    Euan Graham
    Australia can't afford to wait until 2032 for the first of its new submarines to enter the water.
  • 4 Oct 2017
    • Australian Defence Force

    Ballistic missile defence: New options for Australia

    John Blaxland
    It is said ballistic missile defence cannot cover the vast Australian landmass. But technology has advanced rapidly.
  • 30 Aug 2017
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force

    Observing Crocodile Strike

    Euan Graham
    The USMC and ADF operate well together, though they have their own distinct traditions and cultures that require some working through.
  • 24 Aug 2017
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australia

    Should war require parliamentary approval?

    Andrew Carr
    So long as bipartisanship on foreign and defence policy overrules argument and debate, any effort to give parliament a say on war will be pointless.
  • 3 Aug 2017
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force
    • New Zealand

    Australia, US and NZ military co-operation augurs well

    Greg Colton
    For the first time, the combined amphibious force was comprised of ships from the US, Australia and New Zealand.
  • 25 Jul 2017
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Talisman Sabre 17: The realisation of defence strategy

    Greg Colton
    For the first time in more than 30 years, Australia has a military strategy that is beginning to truly align ends, ways and means.
  • 11 Jul 2017
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Defence & Security

    Missile defence for Australia? Expensive and probably not wise

    The North Korean ballistic missile threat is both more intractable, but also less dramatic, than calls for an Australian national missile defence suggest.
  • 5 Jun 2017
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • The Trump Presidency

    AUSMIN: Regional issues deserve top billing

    Dougal Robinson
    The key question is whether Australian overtures to Tillerson and Mattis will inform President Trump’s decision making.
  • 29 May 2017
    • United States
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Afghanistan

    Why Australia should send more military advisers to Afghanistan

    Jim Molan
    Our contribution should meet the need expressed by the commander, stay for as long as is necessary, and contribute to military and political success.
  • 24 Apr 2017
    • Australian Defence Force

    Anzac Day: Remembering the soldiers on unexpected battlefields

    Rodger Shanahan
    On Anzac Day it is worth spending just a little time thinking about the tasks we may call on our present and future service members to perform.
  • 10 Mar 2017
    • Iraq War
    • Australian Defence Force

    Australia in Iraq 2002-2010: Inconsequential, confused and timid

    Jim Molan
    The British called us 'the new French' and the US saw us just another ally that needed to be carried.
  • 29 Nov 2016
    • Australian Defence Force

    Don’t panic: The Trump presidency and Australia's defence needs

    Victor Abramowicz
    Even Trump cannot change the fact that Australia is one of the most geographically fortunate countries on the planet.

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