It’s no secret that data centres need a large amount of power and water. What is less discussed is the security needed to ...

AI is changing how states operationalise their cyber capabilities. In North Korea’s case, it’s transforming the country into a bigger cyber power by helping Pyongyang expand what it already does: ...

Australia isn’t prepared for conflict unless it can build and defend the will to fight. The national civil preparedness and resilience inquiry, adopted in July, is an opportunity to begin that ...

If the need to electrify Australian mining wasn’t clear before the 2026 Iran crisis, it is now. The industry must stop ...

Casual observers of Venezuelan politics might have assumed that the US capture and removal of former Venezuelan president ...

The Australia–Japan partnership stands out because the two countries bring complementary strengths across the economic, ...

The Royal Australian Air Force could increase pilot training capacity, reduce costs and make more efficient use of resources ...

The first question to consider when thinking about a major defence program such as AUKUS is this: defence against whom?

Analysts and policymakers increasingly need to consider unprecedented events. Science fiction offers an underutilised but ...

With slightly over a year to go to before the next national congress of China’s Communist Party, held every five years, China ...

Whenever I write about China’s use of economic coercion, I receive remarkably similar responses. Beijing, I am told, was ...

Count on the AI crowd to have a full-blown culture war over the idea of anthropomorphism. True, many AI researchers and ...