I’ve been a keen follower of the Lockheed Blackbird family since the headline ‘We have Mach 3 plane, says US’ appeared above a short item in London’s Daily Express in March 1964. The coolest thing …
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Militaries rarely lose because they lack courage; they lose because they misread a moment. They lose because they categorise a disruptive technology as an incremental one, and by the time they see the error, the …
At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in May, Defence Minister Richard Marles described attacks on global subsea cable infrastructure as ‘historically unprecedented’ in scale and frequency. Since November 2024, vessels have severed fibre optic cables …
People are missing the most important implication from China’s test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Monday. It’s not the signalling of China’s power, though that was almost certainly in there. In part, it’s …
China said on 6 July that one of its submarines had test-launched a ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean. This followed the signing of an alliance between Australia and Fiji by only hours. ASPI analysts …