China’s ambassador Xiao Qian has replaced wolf warrior language with silken tofu. According to his...
Varghese review will kill off fair, open policy debate
It seems the Albanese government is happy with, but not proud of, Peter Varghese’s “Independent...
Labor must explain why it’s trashed a historic friendship
by Mike Kelly and Anthony Bergin
In her recent Hawke Oration delivered on Monday night, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said we expect...
Fall of Assad triggers momentous shift in Middle East power plays
For more than a decade Syria has been a patchwork of contesting tribal loyalties overlaid with the...
18 Ways To Leave Your Lover: a big tech view of the Pentagon
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar has put out a compelling diagnosis of Pentagon capability acquisition...
Right Here Right Now: Unleashing Australian know-how to grow military power fast
by Michael Shoebridge, Peter Jennings and Marcus Hellyer
This is the third report in the IPA-SAA Blueprint for Defence series that provides an action plan...
Australia’s Ghost Fleet—The strange saga of the Arafura-class Offshore Patrol Vessels
Last year the US Navy’s Ghost Fleet visited Australia. This squadron consists of uncrewed surface...
Another Brick in the Wall: Education, not control can help young Australians with social media
The Labor government’s mis- and disinformation bill died in the Senate this week and rightly so....
When free trade ain’t free: Xi Jinping plays pretend with our enthusiastic prime minister
Back in 2017, early into Donald Trump’s first term as US President, China’s Communist Party leader...
PM’s precarious US-China juggling is about to reach its use by date
Anthony Albanese described his dialogue with Xi Jinping in Brazil last Monday as “crucial” and his...
Australia is struggling to address national security challenges posed by critical seabed infrastructure
by Sam Bashfield and Anthony Bergin
This week a 1200m undersea fibre-optic cable linking Finland and Germany was severed. The two...
Where’s the defence dollar going? Not to Australian medium and small companies
Australian defence industry is struggling through a period of cognitive dissonance. The Albanese...
Australian government increasingly anti-Israel
As a child growing up in Melbourne, I remember lining up outside the huge display windows of Myer...
Episode 29: Washington cyber hygiene. Military shrinks, plans proliferate. Marles keeps balls in the air
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge
Episode 29: Washington cyber hygiene. Military shr | RSS.com In Episode 29, the Grumpy Strategists...
PM’s secret think tank review: minimising discomfort for ministers & mandarins?
It’s time for the government to spill a secret: whatever happened to its ‘independent review’ of...