Articles by: "Kim Beazley"
What of AUKUS submarines if Donald Trump is re-elected?

A former commander of Australia’s submarine fleet once described to me the advantage of nuclear-powered submarines over conventional boats using a vivid analogy of predators.   ‘If you are a Sydney householder, you probably have funnel web …

Australia’s disappeared surface combatant fleet

As Australia awarded itself an ill-thought-out peace dividend at the end of the Cold War, the impact fell hardest on the Navy’s surface combatant fleet. Arguably no element was thought through more thoroughly for the …

Affording Australia’s defence

The 2023 defence strategic review, which sets out how Australia can sustain its security and sovereignty, has been handed to the government. In terms of the concept of warning time developed in the 1987 defence …