by Peter Jennings | Jan 14, 2025 | AUKUS, China, Indo Pacific, Policy, Strategy & Capability
If you thought 2024 was hard for defence and security, the outlook at the beginning of 2025 suggests this year will be even riskier. From 2020, all Australian defence ministers have said the strategic outlook has never been more challenging than since the end of World...
by Michael Shoebridge | Oct 28, 2024 | AUKUS, Policy, Strategy & Capability
Last week Richard Marles and Pat Conroy trumpeted Exercise Autonomous Warrior 2024 as “AUKUS Pillar II in action’. Mr Marles told us that this year’s “Exercise Autonomous Warrior is an exciting and tangible demonstration of progress being made under AUKUS Pillar II”....
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 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...
by Michael Shoebridge | Apr 3, 2024 | China, Policy
When asked about a potential ban of TikTok in Australia because of moves to force its sale or banning in the US, Anthony Albanese was right to say that Australia makes its own decisions on national security and that these are “based on our security assessments”, “not...
