Identifying the industrial capabilities needed in Australia for military–strategic purposes and rectifying supply problems may seem mundane when regional tensions are rising and major decisions on the Australian Defence Force’s force structure hang in the …
The government has announced an 18-month delay to the Royal Australian Navy’s Hunter-class future frigate program. Is this a sign that the project is in serious trouble? Or is it simply an overdue recognition of …
In my last article for The Strategist, I illustrated the challenges that the defence sector faces in building the workforce required to support the government’s large planned investment in defence capability over the next decade. …
In a recent ASPI report, Robert Clark and Peter Jennings argued for the establishment of an Australian version of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Conceptually, it’s a very good suggestion. However, we …
Changing Defence only matters if you care about Australia’s security and understand what’s happening in the world. Organisational reform and cultural change in the Defence Department and the Australian Defence Force have a long, painful …
