Australia has a cybersecurity workforce problem, and part of the explanation is hiding in plain sight: the language of the field actively repels the people we need. Last year, I was on a panel for …
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As Australia strengthens the protection of critical seabed infrastructure, it should draw on Taiwan’s frontline experience. Taiwan has been battling this problem for three years. At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on 30 May, Deputy …
After a bruising tussle inside his administration, President Donald Trump has gone for a decidedly non-committal approach to AI safety and security that’s unlikely to survive sustained contact with reality. He issued an executive order …
The Antarctic Treaty is glorified as evidence of managing cooperation in a contested world. Forged in the Cold War, the treaty system has effectively held conflict at bay for almost seven decades. Geopolitics has been …
On 3 June in New York, the UN General Assembly faces a choice: will the institution charged with enforcing international rules include a voice that’s prepared to call out their breaches? The General Assembly will …
Remoteness from conflict is emerging as a key advantage for Australia in the competition to host AI data centres. The country already enjoys great advantages including prospectively abundant and cheap energy from renewable sources. Israeli …
With the ‘signature project’ on payloads for uncrewed undersea vehicles (UUVs) announced by Australia, Britain and the United States on 30 May at the Shangri-La Dialogue, AUKUS Pillar Two transitions from scientific potential to realising …
Governments still organise around discrete shocks, yet the operating environment increasingly delivers continuous, concurrent and cascading pressures across economic, social, technological and environmental systems. Australia needs to shift from managing shocks to managing interacting risks, …
International rules still matter. That was the common theme at this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, particularly for Indo-Pacific nations. Australia’s deputy prime minister and defence minister, Richard Marles, told the conference, ‘The international rules-based …
A new element has just appeared in Australia–Japan defence and security cooperation: strategic depth. But the two countries, having mentioned it, haven’t gone far to explain what they mean by it. Nonetheless, some fairly safe …
China appears to be playing the long game in pursuit of its interests in the Indo-Pacific. In this series of Strategist articles, Joe Keary, Raji Rajagopalan and Linus Cohen discuss how China is pursuing its regional …
Australian official thought regarding the defence of Australia has been more independently minded than is portrayed by certain academics and commentators who, often not possessing a deep understanding of the history of Australian strategy, have …