The proposed US Marine Corps war reserve stockpile at Bandiana should trigger a sharper Australian debate than the one now unfolding. Can Australia and its allies can turn those stocks into operational effect at the …
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Lessons from the US–Iran war will be long analysed, but as neighbouring Gulf states grapple with the fallout, one clear message is that countries close to a conflict cannot choose the effect it has on …
Australia’s defence debate increasingly discusses what we should build in northern Australia. The more important question is whether what already exists can survive disruption long enough to matter. Over the past decade, governments have invested …
Western Australia’s elevation of Defence West to a statutory authority is emblematic of the much larger national debate about how Australia organises power, capability and industry in an era of strategic competition. Defence West can …
AI is now financed across almost every line of the Australian defence budget. It is not, however, governed across them. The 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS) commits about A$425 billion in capability investment by 2035–36, …