Many policymakers and industry pundits have read Arthur Herman’s Freedom’s Forge with the wrong lesson in mind. For those unfamiliar, the synopsis is simple: in 1940, the United States mobilised its industrial base to mass-produce …
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In modern operations against near-peer adversaries, time is a decisive variable. The side that can observe, orient, decide and act fastest, and with confidence, wins the initiative. Artificial intelligence is changing that calculus. Built on …
When governments talk about deterrence, they usually mean doctrine, platforms and weapons. Yet modern power rests equally on the infrastructure that sustains a nation under stress. The capacity to keep networks online, data protected and …
Deterrence has long been framed in terms of punishment and denial: states have sought to convince adversaries that aggression would be too costly, either through retaliation or by making success unachievable. These approaches still matter, …
Governments across the Indo-Pacific are facing a critical question: who can be trusted to build and manage our most sensitive systems? Vendor choices, for everything from cloud infrastructure to identity platforms, are no longer just …
Modern defence capability no longer begins with submarines or fighters. It begins with infrastructure. Data centres, subsea fibre, sovereign cloud enclaves and globally distributed computing capacity are now essential to how militaries plan, move, fight …
Telecommunications once seemed like the passive layer of critical infrastructure—pipes and switches that connected everything yet rarely drew attention. That perception ended long ago, particularly with the transition to 5G ecosystems. Nokia’s 2025 Threat Intelligence …
Australia has always thrived when it builds for the future. The Snowy Hydro Scheme—a major hydroelectricity system that remains Australia’s largest engineering project—wasn’t developed in response to crisis. It was a bold investment made early, …
When investors assess startup pitches, they rely on company directories and databases to understand what’s emerging and how fast it’s maturing, and to decide where to focus their attention. Defence lacks an equivalent. For decades, …
The race to 6G isn’t just about bandwidth. It’s about control over spectrum, standards, supply chains and the values underpinning tomorrow’s infrastructure. If 5G taught us anything, trust and interoperability need to be built in …
It was encouraging to read Microsoft’s thoughts on the transition to post-quantum cryptography—the new generation of encryption designed to resist future quantum computers. Few companies straddle as much of the quantum landscape, including hardware, error …
A patrol boat shadows an unflagged vessel near a cable landing station in the Pacific. There’s no nearby base. No time to escalate. But a single secure message, sent from a handheld device, alerts regional …