There was a touch of Fidel Castro in Manasseh Sogavare’s speech at the UN last week. In a...
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Talisman Sabre 2023: big lessons from a large exercise
The biggest version of Talisman Sabre ever conducted ended on 8 August. This high-end...
Saltwater Strategists podcast “The China Challenge” and Australian security
A podcast covering strategy, capability, the region, China and the US recorded with Saltwater...
Ukraine and China: déjà vu all over again for Mr Albanese at NATO
Anthony Albanese faces a testing trip to the NATO meeting in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius,...
Beijing’s empty words mean deterrence, not dialogue, will prevent war
Australian prime minister Albanese isn’t the only one talking about the need for ‘guardrails’ in...
To prevent a China war, we must bind ourselves to Taiwan
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has just issued a warning to China over Taiwan. Delivering the...
Let’s not forget Taiwan as we kowtow to China on trade
In the skies above the South China Sea last Friday a Chinese People’s Liberation Army J-16 fighter...
Tug-of-war existence between Taiwan and China
I stood on Cihu beach, on the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, contemplating the hazy silhouettes of...
Forget transparent seas. What’s the plan to deal with crowded oceans?
Eight Australian nuclear submarines operating sometime in the 2050s is a long way off. Even...
A ready reserve of nation’s civilian fleet makes sense for the RAN
Recent revelations that China has launched multiple new civilian ferries that could be used as...
G7 de-risks on China and supports Ukraine. Australia re-risks and shuffles feet.
Australia’s attendance at the G7 and Quad leaders meetings in Japan helps Anthony Albanese back...
Vacuous Quad joint statement sets off warning bells
The best that can be said of the statements, declarations, compacts and media transcripts from...
Biden skipping Sydney Quad meeting’s bad, but our underwhelming Strategic Review is worse
US President Joe Biden’s decision not to attend a summit of the Quad countries in Sydney is...
What we’ve learned from the Defence Strategic Review
While there’s only a single paragraph devoted to it down on page 23, it’s clear that the Defence...
Critics and cheerleading aside, Albanese’s defence strategy has Australia in good company
The first big national security decision prime minister Albanese has taken is on how Australia...