The United States’ 2026 National Defense Strategy may give Australia the impetus for accelerating its shift towards industrial sovereignty and deeper strategic economic integration with the US. But this requires more than policy alignment; it …
Canberra can no longer assume that Washington will underpin regional stability or the rules-based order, the foundational premise of modern Australian strategic planning. Australian policymakers must grapple with the prospect that the destabilising behaviour of …
Elbridge Colby’s senate confirmation hearing in early March holds more important implications for US partners than most observers in Canberra, Wellington or Suva realise. As President Donald Trump’s nominee for under secretary of defence for …
For much of the past decade, Australia, Japan, and the United States have quietly built one of the most sophisticated trilateral security relationships in the Indo‑Pacific. Across intelligence-sharing, advanced air and maritime operations, joint exercises, …
In a blizzard of pre-holidays defence diplomacy, Defence Minister Richard Marles has, in his own words, been ‘doubling down on friends’. His weekend sprint to Tokyo to meet Japan’s new defence minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, was …




