Plans for making 155mm artillery shells in Australia are inadequate. They’ll leave us still relying on imports for some parts, and production capacity for those parts that are made locally would not meet Australian Army …
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The US Marine Corps is dramatically increasing its relevance to the war fighting capability of the United States. As the world lurches into an age of renewed strategic competition, the Marine Corps understands that it …
Europe’s view of China has evolved rapidly in recent decades. What began as a broad lack of knowledge about the country gave way to curiosity about its history and culture. China’s economic rise further piqued …
Gaps in AUKUS communication strategies limit public understanding of its benefits and allow malign actors, such as China and Russia, to sway public opinion. A roundtable held by ASPI’s Washington office on 3 December served …
Ideas, and the words we use to frame them, matter. For example, as the Cold War wound down, ‘the end of history’ suggested that the disintegration of Soviet communism would leave liberal democracy and market …
Supposedly, something big happened in the defence world on 12 December. Upstart startup Anduril announced a joint venture with Archer Aviation, one of the leading companies in the industry for making electric vertical take-off and …
The collapse of Syria’s Assad regime—with President Bashar al-Assad not even informing his closest associates before fleeing to Moscow—has left regional and international players scrambling to stabilise the country. Of course, there have been numerous …
On Christmas morning in 1974, Cyclone Tracy unleashed catastrophic destruction on Darwin, forever altering the city and Australia’s approach to disaster resilience. As the intensity of climate-driven catastrophes grows, the main lesson of Cyclone Tracy …
The drone message from the war in Ukraine has not been lost on Taiwan. Uncrewed aircraft and vessels, especially small, cheap ones, can be built and used in far greater numbers than even a …
The Australian Army does not have a social licence problem, it has self-confidence issue. On balance, the community from which the Australian Army is drawn, and that it serves, values and implicitly permits the army’s …
Open-source AI models are on track to disrupt the cyber security paradigm. With the proliferation of such models—those whose parameters are freely accessible—sophisticated cyber operations will become available to a broader pool of hostile actors. …
Australia’s exports to China have not returned to the peaks before the Chinese authorities started imposing discriminatory bans, but they are higher than five years ago, unlike China’s imports from every other major advanced economy. Although …