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Australia can lead middle-power support for US??? and make itself indispensable
6+ hour, 37+ min ago (437+ words) In a world influenced by competition between great powers, middle powers’ best path forward is to join forces in coalitions of the capable dedicated to building their power in ways that protect their relationships with the United States. Australia is…...
War-warning assessment in Australia???s???most dangerous times???
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (1592+ words) Before 2020, Australian defence strategy was predicated on a planning assumption that we would have at least 10 years’ warning of an impending war. This would give us the crucial time that we would need to expand the Australian Defence Force and…...
ASPI at 25??? Inside ASPI and outside it: contesting ideas
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (413+ words) Twenty-five years ago, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute began with a deceptively simple proposition: Australian strategic policy would be better if the ideas informing it were contested. My time here has also taught me something about ASPI that can be…...
ASPI at 25??? shaping Australia???s relationship with its most important neighbour
3+ day, 9+ min ago (737+ words) ASPI at 25 – shaping Australia’s relationship with its most important neighbour The Strategist | ASPI's analysis and commentary site Few bilateral relationships matter more to Australia than the one with Indonesia, and few have changed as much over the past 25 years. It…...
ASPI at 25??? a quarter-century of analysis and influence
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (699+ words) Twenty-five years ago, the world’s knowledge of al-Qaeda, Vladimir Putin, China’s military ambitions and cyber capabilities, and the advantages of nuclear submarines resided mainly in the classified domains of our intelligence agencies and defence services. It has been the Australian…...
The anti-ballistic missile shortage
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (815+ words) In six months of on-again, off-again fighting with Iran, the United States has effectively exhausted its supply of heavy air defence interceptors. These are the only interceptors that have any ability to shoot down the most dangerous enemy munitions: ballistic…...
Fault Lines??? Putin's Kurils trip, US's carrier gap, China's NZ espionage
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (256+ words) Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. I can see your house from here News from the neighbourhood On 13 August, the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) issued its annual threat assessment. The report identified China as the…...
South Asia???s digital transformation should be a focus for India
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (806+ words) South Asia’s digital transformation should be a focus for India The Strategist | ASPI's analysis and commentary site India needs to pay greater attention to South Asia’s digital transformation as part of its regional strategy. Digital infrastructure is no longer simply…...
Indonesia???s China exercise was a judgement failure, not an alignment shift
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (256+ words) News about an Indonesian frigate exercising with a Chinese warship 130 to 150 km east of Taiwan was always going to raise eyebrows. The exercise ast week was the first time China had conducted such an operation with a foreign military in…...
North Korea Is Learning from War. The US???South Korea Alliance Must Keep Pace
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (762+ words) President Donald Trump’s instruction to the Pentagon on Sunday to ‘substantially reduce’ joint military exercises with South Korea comes at a particularly difficult moment. Trump has cited the cost of the exercises, Seoul’s unwillingness to support US military operations against…...