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A new combination of surveillance, drones and precision strike is eroding the old assumption that navies could generate sea control through superior ships, vessels, aircraft and operational skills alone. Geography still matters, but the new ...

With a clutch of new long-range air-to-air missiles (LRAAMs) with ranges of 300 km or more, US forces could dramatically shift the aerial balance of power over the Western Pacific. Travelling at least twice as ...

Australia is spending billions to build green industries while Defence is trying to make the Australian Defence Force harder to disrupt. These efforts should reinforce each other. Future Made in Australia, the government’s clean-industry agenda, ...

Australia has developed a growing class of self-declared geopolitical analysts and independent researchers who built their reputations not through research, experience or sustained analytical work but through podcasts, social media feeds and confident commentary. Platforms ...

Bogged down militarily in Ukraine, with Russia’s economy in a shambles and Ukrainian drones penetrating ever deeper into the heartland and causing popular unrest, President Vladimir Putin’s position is looking increasingly tenuous. In anticipation of ...

The Indo-Pacific’s next deterrence problem may be a shortage not of military capability but of coordination. As Australia, Japan and South Korea acquire long-range strike, missile defence and other strategic conventional capabilities, they are increasingly ...

The Department of Home Affairs has made an important start. In response to an OpenAI agent reaching non-public files on a decades-old Medicare Statistics portal, last week it issued a direction that required agencies to ...

Australia needs a more active and hardheaded approach towards the Middle East to deal with ongoing conflicts stemming from or worsened by the attack against Israel three years ago today by Hamas and other Iran-backed terrorist ...

If the army’s emerging littoral force is to become effective, the government must create an integrated northern logistics system from military and civilian capabilities. The Australian Army Contribution to the National Defence Strategy 2026 sets ...

On 5 August, the Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic Hub for Shared Security Challenges met to assess what happened at NATO’s Ankara summit in July. The hub, which was launched in February, is a regional network open ...

Intelligence professionals carry an unrecognised ethical responsibility. It arises when they shape what political decision-makers come to know, which risks are held to be salient, and which options appear available. Intelligence ethics is still too ...

AI-powered autonomous weapons, operating with little or no human supervision, offer speed, scale and lower costs, but they also raise hard questions about who stays in control. In this selection of Strategist articles, authors look ...

A six-paragraph news release at 5:01 pm on Tuesday was all that marked the launch of one of the biggest US Navy projects of the 21st century: the service had picked Boeing, over Northrop Grumman, ...

The Australian Army doesn’t own many of the systems that its future combat power depends on. Ports, fuel supplies, freight networks, telecommunications, electricity, cloud computing, satellite services and skilled workforces sit largely beyond the Department ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his address to the United Nations General Assembly to make an important point about artificial intelligence: the world needs to cooperate and get ahead of the risks of AI. He ...

  Chinese President Xi Jinping’s purge of the senior leadership of the People’s Liberation Army continues unabated. It reveals both the reach of the Chinese Communist Party’s disciplinary apparatus, and the persistence of disloyalty and ...

I’ve been a keen follower of the Lockheed Blackbird family since the headline ‘We have Mach 3 plane, says US’ appeared above a short item in London’s Daily Express in March 1964. The coolest thing ...

As much as the federal budget needs fixing, shifting more disaster risk onto Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia would be the wrong way to do it. These jurisdictions already carry some of the ...

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 18 September to 1 October ...

With China posing a threat to Indonesia’s interests in the South China Sea, Indonesia needs a clear maritime cooperation strategy. It should itself set the cooperation agenda with China, insist that joint activity complies with ...

Australia’s sovereignty debate can sometimes get tied up in knots. Sovereignty does not mean isolated self-sufficiency. Rather, it means preserving our strategic options and our agency to make decisions in our national interest. That might ...

Australia is accepting significant risk in mine countermeasures, a capability once seen as essential. While investing heavily in submarines and warships, Australia has allowed its dedicated mine countermeasures force to decline from six Huon-class minehunters ...

‘There are weeks when decades happen’ has been a stock phrase to remember this summer. The missile wars between Ukraine and Russia and between Iran and the United States (and its nervous Middle Eastern allies) ...

Australia’s rare-earths industry has made substantial progress. After years of project development, government investment and efforts to diversify supply chains away from China, a new generation of Australian projects is moving towards production. Several of ...

The Australian Army’s workforce is more educated, technically proficient and connected to emerging technology than any previous generation. Its people challenge assumptions, experiment with new capabilities and increasingly recognise learning as a warfighting function. The ...