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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The focus for this year’s annual gathering of Pacific leaders and partners was always going to be about China. With the 55th annual meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) taking place last week in ...

Maritime surveillance has become Southeast Asia’s critical capability gap. Artificial intelligence combined with orbital ...