As Operation Epic Fury enters its second week, it is manifestly obvious that Donald Trump’s ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ is running low. The United States, Iran and Israel appear to be locked in a race to …
Articles by: "Elizabeth Buchanan"
The polar regions, long regarded as remote, frozen frontiers of science and exploration, are emerging as arenas of strategic competition and geopolitical tension. What happens at the ends of the Earth increasingly matters for global …
In Canberra, it’s called taking out the trash. Late on Friday, 27 June, the Department of Defence quietly issued a media release with news it must have hoped would get little media attention: it had …
Australians need to understand the cyber threat from China. US President Donald Trump described the launch of Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot, DeepSeek, as a wake-up call for the US tech industry. The Australian government moved …
The litany of executive orders that have dropped on the White House website tell us plenty about what Australia can expect from a second Trump term’s foreign policies. And there are plenty of implications of …
The Australian Army does not have a social licence problem, it has self-confidence issue. On balance, the community from which the Australian Army is drawn, and that it serves, values and implicitly permits the army’s …
A new element of strategic competition is emerging in the Southern Ocean—in Australia’s backyard—in the form of Beijing’s push to control and exploit fisheries. The situation demands that we bolster capability while also cultivating consensus …
While I’m wary of joining the chorus of defence commentators yelling at clouds, our government has boxed itself into a corner. We must spend more on defence, but creeping suppression of informed public debate coupled …
Picture a globe turned upside down so you see Antarctica at the top of the world. The continent’s immense strategic value is striking. Global resource pressures, coupled with advances in technology, continue to generate a …
Our domestic discourse on the geopolitics of Antarctica is shamefully shallow. Our attitude continues to be one of ‘there’s nothing to see here’. Our vital interests, including the defence of Australian sovereign territory, are …
Australia has all but institutionalised self-censorship in intellectual strategic thought. An absence of secure academic positions, widening of the policy-scholarly divide, and a corrosive culture of in-fighting over a piece of the same (dwindling) funding …
While environmentalists have welcomed the Australian government’s decision to abandon the Davis aerodrome project in Antarctica, China is likely now drafting its own year-round aviation plans for the site. Canberra had already completed much of …