This week a 1200m undersea fibre-optic cable linking Finland and Germany was severed. The two...
Policy
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
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...
Australian defence policy under a Trump world order
Most commentary thus far has been on how the Australian government will handle a Trump...
Reality Bites: Senate Estimates issues for Defence November 2024
Questions for the 2024-25 Defence portfolio supplementary budget estimates hearings Senate...
Episode 28: Sub schedules on fire, Deterrence by Documentation & a guided weapons go slow
Episode 28: Sub schedules on fire, deterrence by d | RSS.com With a fire in the UK's sub...
Defence’s recycled autonomy announcements – fool me once, shame on you…
Last week Richard Marles and Pat Conroy trumpeted Exercise Autonomous Warrior 2024 as “AUKUS...
What does a Canada-India spat mean for Australia?
India and Canada are engaged in a growing political battle over foreign interference. It’s not...
The war in Gaza is not over … but we are nearing the beginning of the end
With Yahya Sinwar’s death, Israel is stronger, Hamas is on the way out, and Hezbollah and the...
Warfare and competition from 2024 on
Warfare has changed fundamentally. Rather than seeing it as a linear progression—or adapted...
What Arab states know – and we don’t
There’s an open secret across Middle Eastern governments that is a background driver of their...
A Defence Force that meets Australia’s strategic requirements: Paper 2 in A Blueprint for the Next Government
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and its strategic outlook are in crisis and urgent action is...
Israel must be supported in using force against foes
Speaking on Monday at Israel’s embassy in Canberra at the commemoration of the Hamas attack on 7...