by Lesley Seebeck | Oct 18, 2024 | China, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Warfare has changed fundamentally. Rather than seeing it as a linear progression—or adapted regression, depending on your perspective—we should understand it as increasing entanglement between the three strategic domains of conventional warfare, nuclear warfare, and...
by Anthony Bergin | Oct 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Australia’s Education Minister Jason Clare recently accused Israel of not complying with international law in bombing hospitals and schools. In war, hospitals aren’t protected if they’re used for non-hospital military purposes. If they are used for...
by Peter Jennings | Oct 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
A year after the Hamas atrocities, put to one side the street theatre of protests and Labor’s confused talking points and ask: what really is happening in the Middle East? On October 7 last year Israel suffered the worst intelligence and defence failure since the...
by Michael Shoebridge | Oct 10, 2024 | Policy, Strategy & Capability
There’s an open secret across Middle Eastern governments that is a background driver of their approaches to the war between Israel and Iran and its terrorist proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis: they all welcome a weakened Iran and the dismantling of its...
by Marcus Hellyer, Peter Jennings and Michael Shoebridge | Oct 8, 2024 | China, Defence Budget, Policy, Strategy & Capability
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and its strategic outlook are in crisis and urgent action is needed. The key recommendation of this report is that, following the next election, the government must take urgent steps to boost Australian production of weapons,...
by Anthony Bergin | Oct 8, 2024 | Policy
Speaking on Monday at Israel’s embassy in Canberra at the commemoration of the Hamas attack on 7 October, Senator Dave Sharma said we should “affirm the profound attachment of the people of Israel to life, to living, and to go on living, despite everything. To...
by Peter Jennings | Oct 8, 2024 | Policy
It shouldn’t have happened this way. In 12 months of political ineptitude and strategic blindness, the Albanese government let domestic sympathy for terrorist groups grow to the point that Australia risks violence and breaking our social fabric. Such stupidity from...
by Michael Shoebridge | Oct 3, 2024 | Policy
Anthony Albanese gave what was probably an unwitting insight into his thinking on the war in the Middle East when he said “overwhelmingly, it’s not front of mind of where Australians are at”. Judging on his statements about the war in the Middle East across...
by Anthony Bergin | Sep 30, 2024 | Policy
Michael Walzer’s book, Just and Unjust Wars, is arguably the most influential modern work on the laws of war. Last week Walzer argued in the New York Times that the attacks on Hezbollah’s handheld devices were “very likely war crimes’...
by Peter Jennings and Anthony Bergin | Sep 27, 2024 | Strategy & Capability
Defence and security agencies around the world – the smart ones – are rethinking their vulnerabilities after Israel’s pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah. Even terrorist organisations are vulnerable to global supply chain warfare. What does this mean for the...
