Iran and Israel have been at loggerheads since the transformation of Iran into an Islamic republic more than four decades ago and each has persistently viewed the other as a major threat to its national …
Debate: "General"
Afghanistan is on the brink of catastrophe, and it is US President Joe Biden’s fault. By overruling America’s top generals and ordering the hasty withdrawal of US troops, Biden opened the way for Taliban terrorists …
Ransomware attacks are now a global epidemic and Australia is a prime target. That’s because ransomware is scalable, ransomware attacks can be commoditised and ransomware criminals are essentially ‘guns for hire’. Bringing a huge organisation …
In part 1 of this series, we talked about Australia’s rapidly changing strategic environment. In this follow-up, we focus on ways that Australia’s foreign policy funding models should adapt to accommodate to this new environment. …
The president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, was shot dead on 7 July by a team of commandos at his home in Port-au-Prince. The first lady, Martine Moïse, was wounded in the attack and is recovering …
US President Joe Biden has found his mission: to secure the West by strengthening its liberal democracies against authoritarian temptations, both foreign and domestic. Having witnessed both an attempted coup and steeply rising socioeconomic inequalities …
The Israel–Hamas conflagration of 10–21 May, the fourth such conflict since 2008, has been over for almost two months. Diplomatic drama and manoeuvrings continue in its aftermath: incendiary balloon attacks from Gaza sparking Israeli retaliation, …
Providing significant amounts of Defence funding to Australia’s universities could drive urgent national security research while ensuring the survival of the institutions and reducing their dependence on large numbers of students from China. A new …
Australia’s strategic environment has changed dramatically over the past decade. The Indo-Pacific is an increasingly complex place to call home and we must be able to more rapidly reshuffle our limited foreign policy resources towards …
Think back to the beginning of commercial aviation in the 20th century. The Wright brothers flew their Wright Flyer on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, proving that heavier-than-air flight was possible. On …
US politicians from both congressional parties are worried that China is overtaking America as the global leader in science and technology. In a rare display of bipartisanship, the normally gridlocked Senate passed a bill in …
As the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, Australians have seen their civil liberties and their community cohesion increasingly securitised and viewed as secondary to the need to prevent violence. Despite our efforts to …