An article in The Strategist by Mike Keating and Jon Stanford on 22 August calling for abandoning the nuclear-submarine element of AUKUS is unconvincing. Most fundamentally, the authors, while arguing that the agreement aligns Australia …
For Poland, Russian aggression is not an abstract or distant possibility; it is an experience embedded in national history. This experience has been shaped by repeated encounters with an eastern neighbour whose imperial ambitions have, …
Cybercrime and exploitation pose a unique threat to Pacific islands, where small populations, fragile infrastructure and limited capacity increase their risks. While extra-regional partners already offer cyber capacity building and aid, Pacific island countries have …
Northern Australia’s resilience in the face of crises depends not only on military facilities but on a network of civil infrastructure—ports, liquid-fuel facilities, airfields and logistics hubs that keep people, goods, and equipment moving. Whether …
Defence Minister Richard Marles said in June that if war broke out between the US and China, Australia would inevitably be involved. This is an unacceptable situation for any sovereign nation to be in. It …
From its anonymous digs in Crystal City, the Pentagon’s high-rise civilian annex, the Joint Program Office for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning wrote $36 billion in contracts in 2023 alone. The program is still critical …
A future where northern Australia is not a distant frontier but a thriving engine of national resilience, sovereign capability and regional prosperity remains out of reach because we continue to underinvest in physical and digital …
