6+ hour, 35+ min ago   (232+ words) West Asia should stand closer to the centre of Australian strategic thinking, but the language used to describe it too often leaves it sitting on the sidelines. The term we use for it, ‘Middle East’, fixes the region as a…...

20+ hour, 14+ min ago   (466+ words) As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in his speech at Sydney University last month, artificial intelligence is already a part of our daily lives and ‘no government can turn back the clock or press pause’. And nor should we. Australia…...

23+ hour, 58+ min ago   (187+ words) Tian had only recently returned from China after attending the 11th World Conference of Overseas Chinese Associations, held in Beijing on 13 and 14 July, where he had been interviewed by China News Service. The immediate public display of affection with United Front…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (431+ words) Japan says it has nearly reached its defence spending target. But it has done so only by measuring today’s defence budget against its smaller economy of four years ago – arithmetical manipulation it uses in the face of US pressure for…...

2+ day, 6+ hour 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…...

3+ 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…...

4+ 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…...

5+ day, 12+ 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…...

5+ 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…...

5+ 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…...