Sea state The fourth AUSINDEX maritime exercise between Australia and India is underway. The four-day training drills are taking place off Darwin for the first time, and aim to boost interoperability between the two navies’ …
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Australia is due to play Afghanistan in the first cricket test between the two countries and the first test of the coming season at Bellerive Oval in Hobart, Tasmania, in mid-November. This test match must …
On 1 September 1951, the ANZUS Treaty was signed in San Francisco. ASPI executive director Peter Jennings speaks with Mike Goldman, chargé d’affaires at the US embassy in Canberra, about the importance of the US–Australia …
The late United States senator and navy secretary John Warner once said: ‘The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one’s borders, of one’s internal situation, and security against anyone attacking …
A common intellectual parlour game is to rank American presidents in order of greatness. Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt have long reigned supreme in the top four slots in C-SPAN’s …
The images of desperate Afghans scaling the perimeter fence at Kabul’s airport in an attempt to flee Taliban rule provide a heartbreaking record of our geopolitical moment. The brutal way in which the West’s former …
The extent to which the ANZUS Treaty turns upon the US provision of a nuclear umbrella to its smaller ally is a topic both complex and controversial. J.G. Starke opined that, while the treaty certainly …
The defiant words of that old rabble-rouser Thomas Paine provide a fitting rallying cry for Western leaders after the US-led retreat from Afghanistan and the return to power of the Taliban. The West now faces …
The bomb blast outside Kabul’s airport made 26 August the deadliest day for the US in Afghanistan for a decade. An Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) suicide bomber killed an estimated 170 Afghans and 13 US …
The Tokyo Olympic Games are over, and the Japanese people and government have heaved a sigh of relief that the spectacle passed without a major Covid-19 outbreak in the athletes’ village or another disaster. Here …
Our basis for thinking about social cohesion in Australia continues to be embedded in traditional multiculturalism. It is yet to catch up with the digital world where cyberhate, foreign interference and violent extremism thrive. Social …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation. As ASPI was formed in August 2001, the first new war of the 21st century was only weeks away. …