The US- and Israeli-led war on Iran has been, with a few key caveats, a quick military success for the United States and its ...

Ukraine’s most significant success in fighting off Russia has arguably been in the Black Sea. It forced Russia’s Black Sea ...

Fifty years after the Tange reforms created the modern Australian Defence Force, Australia faces a structural problem that few are willing to confront: steady erosion of the service chiefs’ authority.

Pacific, but they confront the same underlying problem: deep digitisation has converted efficiency into exposure. Supply-chain cyberattacks in the Indo-Pacific are no longer isolated incidents. They ...

Concrete and ribbon-cutting events don’t sustain wars; fuel, power, logistics and people do. Australia has invested ...

If recent days have shown anything, it is that the United States and Israel retain the capacity to dismantle a state’s military infrastructure (and even leadership) at speed. But dismantling a regime ...

Critical minerals now sit at the centre of Australia’s strategic future. But geology alone will not secure national resilience or regional transformation. Australia must decide whether it will build a ...

Eight decades after the end of World War II, history’s largest conflict still has lessons for Australia. Among the most important is that we must expect large-scale mobilisation. Today, despite our ...

The health of Australia’s democracy; the combined freedom, security and resilience of its society; and the credibility of its ...

If BRICS can assemble an economic and political coalition with strategic intent, why shouldn’t the Commonwealth countries?

Discussion of the Australian Defence Force’s planned littoral-manoeuvre capability is too narrow, focusing on ships, ranges and geography. Defence should treat it as an alliance-enabled industrial and ...

JAUKUS may yet be possible. I argued in 2023 that Japan couldn’t be added to AUKUS Pillar Two because it lacked legal and ...