In his recent Strategist contribution, David Lang nailed a critical, but sadly missing, dimension of the counter terrorism intelligence debate regarding encryption. David put it perfectly when he argued that encryption is a ‘central contributor …
In his recent post on The Strategist, Anthony Bergin makes many good points about the use of encryption by non-state actors like Daesh, the related challenges to intelligence collection, and the importance of balancing civil liberties and national security …
In the lead up to the Paris tragedy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned about the dangers of ‘going dark’: data stored on e-mail, text messages, phone calls, live chat sessions, photos and videos being …
The US government has just released one of the most worrying reports about the risk of nuclear war in the Cold War and the dangers of miscalculating Soviet intentions. The top-secret document was released in …
Consider what the Howard government could know and ask in 2002 and early 2003 before committing to the blunder that is the Iraq war. No 20/20 hindsight. No fatuous effort to blame Australia for the …




