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Defence Force recruiting crisis: It’s time to recruit applicants who aren’t citizens
An important policy change set out in the 2024 National Defence Strategy (NDS) has been largely...
Twelve questions for the Defence portfolio’s Senate estimates hearings
These questions are based on the information contained in the 2024 National Defence Statement...
Truth Decay – some corrective action is necessary and possible
Australia’s Chief of Defence Force General Angus Campbell recently described the challenge of...
Rolling back dangerous Chinese military behaviour – it starts with a phone call
It shouldn’t be a surprise to hear that a Chinese jet has endangered an Australian Navy helicopter...
The numerology of Australia’s new National Defence Strategy & investment plan
The numerology of Australia's new National Defence | RSS.com In Episode 17, Marcus Hellyer and...
The National Defence Strategy’s 2 key shortfalls: strategic purpose & the nature of warfare
Years ago, a task often assigned graduates newly arrived in Defence was to draft responses to...
Anthony Albanese turns a deaf ear to Australia’s rising terror threat
The appearance at the National Press Club of ASIO director-general Mike Burgess and Australian...
A Pacific Ocean Expedition
Pacific leaders have long recognised the benefits to be derived from investing more in ocean...
Why we should pay attention to China’s Antarctic moves
After Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s recent meeting with Penny Wong in land-locked Canberra it...
The West must act against Tehran aggression
The massive and direct aggression against Israel by Iran should wake up the democratic world to...
There is no deterrence without a manufacturing base
Deterrence has been this Government’s mantra from the early stages of its time in office....
Devalued words and dollars damage Australia’s security
Devalued words and dollars damage Australia's secu | RSS.com The Grumpy Strategists assess the...
Crisis? What Crisis? Policy Perspectives and Strategic Coherence
This is an edited version of an address to the Sir Richard Williams Foundation Conference on the...
Change, not continuity, is what’s needed to meet the ever-growing threat from China
Promotion in the Australian Defence Force is designed to be this way. The Chief of Defence Force...