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Australia should open talks on joining the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) now, before the institution’s lending rules are written without an Indo-Pacific member at the table. The DSRB is a proposed multilateral lender ...

On 6 to 7 August 2026, Philippine Secretary of National Defense Gilbert Teodoro visited Darwin on the tail end of Exercise Pitch Black 2026, where he met Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles. The visit offered ...

Australia’s strategic thinking, increasingly focused on deterrence, has yet to distinguish the conditions that make deterrence effective from the framework through which Australia intends to implement it. Elements of both are evident in Australia’s National ...

When China’s supreme leader Deng Xiaoping in December 1978 announced the ‘reform and opening’ of China’s economy, many expected that this would be accompanied by a gradual shift from authoritarian rule to a more liberal ...

Vietnam’s Communist Party chief and president, To Lam, has arrived for his first state visit to Australia since becoming party chief in late 2024. Arriving two years after the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two ...

The global pressures of 2026 have created no shortage of distractions. An increasingly interventionist US administration has added to flashpoints from the Middle East to Venezuela and Greenland, consuming the attention of the media, the ...

For decades, northern Australia has been discussed as a frontier for economic development. More recently, it has become central to Australia’s defence strategy. Yet we continue to approach the region much as we always have: ...

The following is a speech delivered by ASPI executive director Justin Bassi at the Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research Summit, held in Adelaide from 4 to 6 August 2026. Just over 10 years ago, ...

Military protection has never existed simply to keep soldiers alive or platforms intact. Its enduring purpose has always been to preserve freedom of action: the ability of a force to manoeuvre, fight and impose its ...

Australia has a new chief of the defence force, Admiral Mark Hammond, and here are three issues he should take on as he charts the course of the nation’s military strategy. He should establish a ...

Australia cannot build a resilient space sector while its legal framework remains incomplete and fails to keep pace with commercial change. The rise in corporate space activity means the sector is no longer defined by ...

China’s reported sale of shoulder-launched missile systems to Iran should be concerning not just to the United States but also to Australia and other major powers in the Indo-Pacific. It demonstrates a deeper strategic partnership ...

Generating operational mass in the Indo-Pacific requires new approaches to projecting, sustaining and employing military power across vast distances and contested environments. This must be achieved despite constraints in workforce and industrial capacity that can ...

Australia’s housing debate is too often framed as a contest between investors and first home buyers. For northern Australia, the stakes are much higher. Housing shortages are increasingly constraining workforce development, critical infrastructure delivery, defence ...

Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actions and developments shaping the regional order and Australia’s security. This edition covers the period from 24 July ...

The Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team’s investigation into an alleged arson attack on a Melbourne defence company has generated predictable debate about whether the incident constitutes terrorism. That question is important and, ultimately, one for ...

In his fireside with former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon at the 2026 ASPI Defence Conference, Senator James Paterson took the view that Australia’s political and military leaders had arrived at a largely correct diagnosis of ...

When NATO leaders met in Ankara in July 2026, industry was the centrepiece of the summit. The Strategy for Industry–NATO Cooperation, endorsed by all 32 allies, treats industrial capacity as an instrument of deterrence in ...

The war in Ukraine has become increasingly technological. Take unmanned systems: Kyiv has successfully implemented a drone strategy that combines a drone wall along the immediate front, long-range drones that strike deep inside Russia, AI-enabled ...

As digital threats increasingly span across domains, cross-institutional cooperation is becoming central to national security. Australia needs to fuse cyber, physical and information-based threat indicators into one operational picture before crises emerge. Australia’s nati…

Every significant development involving China now seems to trigger the same argument. A missile test, an investment proposal, an electric vehicle shipment, a port lease or critical mineral project quickly becomes another debate over whether ...

In the struggle with China over critical-minerals supply chains, the United States and its partners should focus efforts across three fronts: commercial, technological and allied coordination. Action is needed in each to overcome advantages that ...

North Korea’s naval modernisation is still in its early stages. Much of its surface and submarine fleet remains outdated, while its more ambitious shipbuilding and undersea programs face serious technical and operational obstacles. However, it ...

No one should expect diplomatic pressure alone to make Beijing abandon a sovereignty claim. Ten years ago this month, a tribunal constituted under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea handed China one ...

  US, British, and Australian defence innovation organisations can learn from Canada and New Zealand, which are jointly focusing on faster, mission-driven challenges to achieve operational capability. Canada and New Zealand are demonstrating that defence ...