Launching Australia’s Defence Industry Development Strategy (DIDS) yesterday, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy argued that ‘the goal of growing our self-reliance is deterrence.’ It is an important proposition, but self-reliance on its own does not …
The US commitment to Indo-Pacific stability is being tested not by strategic ambiguity but by industrial reality. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s recent notification to Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi that deliveries of US-made Tomahawk …
The most dangerous assumption in current contingency planning is that any war, even a regional war involving the United States, would be short. Four interacting forces would make high-intensity regional conflicts hard to terminate: regime …
Historian and media commentator James Curran is wrong to suggest we should fear that closer defence ties with Japan could drag Australia into a conflict with China, as he argued in the Australian Financial Review …
Australia’s 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS) marks a quiet but consequential shift from its predecessor, fundamentally redefining the political objective underpinning the Australian Defence Force’s five key tasks. While the 2024 strategy focused on maintaining …
