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The Pentagon’s top policy official, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby, used his first Southeast Asian tour last week to make a pitch for why regional countries should partner with the United States ...

The signals are getting clear enough: Japan is becoming an ally of Australia. The latest indication is that Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is this week visiting Australia for the second time in four months. ...

As armed forces and their suppliers work on costly lasers to knock down cheap drones, the drone makers can easily reach for inexpensive responses from the building industry. Fire engineers have quite a few ways ...

The meeting in Canberra tomorrow between the defence ministers of Australia and Japan, Richard Marles and Shinjiro Koizumi, is an opportunity to set bilateral priorities for defence industry cooperation beyond Australia’s acquisition of Upgraded Mogami-class ...

The United States has had enough in cyberspace. The White House has now created a program under which American companies can conduct offensive cyber operations against ransomware gangs and other ‘cyber-enabled transnational criminal organizations.’ Australia ...

Taiwan’s been opening its intelligence archives – with lamentable results. The opening of the records, which began in February 2026, has damaged the reputations of people named in the declassified files. This has included serving ...

Australia is helping Southeast Asian countries see more of what happens in their waters. It should now equip them to communicate what they see. On 21 July, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced an additional ...

Last month, US Senator Tammy Duckworth warned that China may be more likely to impose an economic blockade on Taiwan in 2028 than launch a full-scale invasion. The most consequential part of her warning was ...

Russia has a potent yet often overlooked fleet of nuclear-powered and conventional attack submarines in the Pacific. An explainer from ASPI published on 13 August argues that Russia is well placed to assist China in ...

The marine park around the Cocos (Keeling) Islands should be understood as a national security asset, not just a conservation zone. This demands a whole-of-government approach coordinated by Australia’s Department of Defence, other Commonwealth and ...

Simultaneous shifts in the character of warfare and in the international system are heightening Australia’s risk of strategic surprise. Changes in one domain could unexpectedly coalesce with changes in another, rendering the country suddenly more ...

Australia, so dependent on Britain for AUKUS, needn’t worry about new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s commitment to defence or about opportunities for cooperation. If the new prime minister’s perceived focus on British domestic issues have ...

For 80 years, there was an expectation that when international crises threatened to spiral into war, the United Nations would be at the centre of efforts to prevent it. Yet during the recent Middle East ...

The Australian Defence Force is on a strong trajectory to become an integrated force greater than the sum of its parts, incorporating all five domains. Competition for people and resources across the domains will continue, ...

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 ...