The release of the 2024 National Defence Strategy (NDS) in April revealed a dividing line within Australia’s strategic and defence community. The line is between Defence and the ADF, which have a new way of …
Pictures from satellites are pretty useful, especially for disaster relief. And the more data, the better, so Asian nations have a mechanism for sharing their images. A problem is that most Asian nations are not …
After World War II began, Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, said: ‘The [Allies] let us alone and let us slip through the risky zone and we were able to sail around all dangerous reefs. And …
The news this month must have been met with relief in Kyiv and grief in the Kremlin. The US Congress finally broke its six-month logjam and approved a new package of military aid for Ukraine …
The program to equip the Royal Australian Navy with nuclear submarines is in trouble. The takeaway: Australia must begin thinking now about what to do to avoid program failure. Why has this situation arisen? First, …
Defence will continue to operate within a tight financial straightjacket as it executes the massive redirection demanded by last year’s Defence Strategic Review and the AUKUS program, with cuts to existing projects expected to make …
Everyone knows illicit drug use in Australia is worsening, but wouldn’t it be helpful if we had precise numbers for gauging the scale of the problem? How useful it would be if we could measure …