ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. Terrorism changed Canberra in ways big and small. The 9/11 era and the Bali bombings caused …
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ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. ‘It’s a very encouraging sign that industry can meet the challenge of ‘eating the elephant’ presented …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. ‘Strategy without money is not strategy.’ — Arthur Tange, Secretary of the Department of Defence, 1970–1979* …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. Australian naval shipbuilding has a long history. Calling it a chequered history only just captures the …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. When ASPI began its work, the F-35 joint strike fighter was Australia’s biggest and most expensive …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. Why does Australia build its own military kit? Why not just buy it off the shelf? …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. The military needs kit. Cash builds capability. Such plain propositions to describe such expensive complexity. What …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. Created to both know and kick the Department of Defence, ASPI pursues this part of its …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. ‘Contestability’ is a very Canberra word. It’s about the need to promote arguments. So the best …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. When ASPI was launched, intense argument raged between Australia’s regionalists and globalists. Old arguments took on …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. Among strategists, geography is used in an effort to refine Australia’s strategic thinking and impose hierarchy …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. Australia’s hope–fear equations on India and China have been through contrasting evolutions during ASPI’s two decades. …