To celebrate the Queen’s Birthday long weekend, Team Strategist is taking a day off today. But never fear, we’ll be back tomorrow with our normal schedule of considered analysis.

Until then, to tide you over, we’d recommend checking out the live-tweeting coverage of our international conference ‘Building the Joint & Integrated ADF’, a couple of speeches from across the two days (Andrew Davies‘, VADM Ray Griggs‘ and Minister Payne‘s), the ol’ faithful ASPI suggests, and Mark Thomson’s well argued warning for Australia on ‘The wickedness of China‘.

Happy birthday, Lizzy!