by Richard Herr and Anthony Bergin | Jan 18, 2024 | South Pacific
Generation Z, hooked to smartphones, isn’t signing up to serve in the Australian Defence Force. Defence Personnel Minister Matt Keogh recently pointed out that the ADF allows transfers for personnel from the British and US armed forces. Now the Albanese...
by Peter Jennings | Jan 16, 2024 | Indo Pacific, South Pacific
Large-scale rioting, looting and burning took place in Port Moresby last week, sparked by a payroll “glitch” deducting up to $120 a fortnight from public service pay packets, including Papua New Guinea police, defence and corrections personnel. Several hundred...
by Mike Kelly and Anthony Bergin | Jan 15, 2024 | Policy
Foreign Minister Penny Wong arrives in Israel this week with an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of key developments to better inform our approach to the Israel-Gaza war. The minister will also be able to convey Australian ideas that might be...
by Peter Jennings | Jan 12, 2024 | Strategy & Capability, Ukraine
On Monday, Acting Defence Minister Matt Thistlethwaite farewelled 90 Australian Defence Force personnel departing for Britain, where they will train Ukrainian soldiers. This is the fifth ADF training rotation, providing basic infantry skills to Ukrainian new recruits...
by Peter Jennings | Jan 7, 2024 | Strategy & Capability
Sunday, January 7, is three months since Hamas’s terrorist attack in southern Israel, where more than 1500 jihadists crossed over from Gaza on the morning of a Jewish religious holiday, killed 1200 people, raping and torturing many, and taking several...
by Peter Jennings | Jan 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
The horrific Hamas pre-emptive strike on Israel on October 7 should have been a global wake-up call that jihadist violent extremism was not eliminated by the defeat of the Islamic State group in the battle for Mosul in Iraq in 2017. The extremism represented by Hamas,...
by Greg Rose and Anthony Bergin | Jan 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
In a puppet play, the puppet master pulls the strings. Today’s international performance is one that Iran has produced after years of masterful financing, scripting, casting, practising, and propagandising. The characters are Iran’s proxy networks: the Houthis in...
by Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge | Jan 1, 2024 | Defence Budget, Podcasts, Policy, Strategy & Capability
The Christmas-New Year Edition – indicators and warnings for the Defence Force – and a Christmas gift to a troubled department | RSS.com In Episode 10, SAA’s Marcus Hellyer and Michael Shoebridge discuss the indicators and warnings about the state of...
by Peter Jennings | Dec 30, 2023 | Policy, Strategy & Capability
The Albanese government ends 2023 adrift on national security and foreign policy, like the HMAS Toowoomba in the Sea of Japan a few weeks ago, propellers snarled and hostile forces looming. Four examples from late December expose Anthony Albanese’s malaise: failing to...
by Anthony Bergin | Dec 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
After Defence Minister Richard Marles confirmed on Friday before Christmas that Australia won’t be sending a naval ship to the Red Sea, it’s important to place this decision in some context. See here and here for a useful summary prepared by a former US naval...
