Recent events in the Middle East have turned the fuel vulnerability Australia confronted during the Red Sea disruptions last ...

When Iranian drones struck hyperscale cloud data-centre facilities in the United Arab Emirates and damaged infrastructure near Bahrain on 1 March, they did not just target military bases. They also ...

A debate over Chinese-made electric buses has arrived in Australia with familiar speed. Talk of potential kill switches has prompted calls to rip and replace foreign vehicles and turn to domestic ...

Australia’s response to antisemitism and other forms of prejudice is increasingly framed through the language of national security. That instinct is understandable. Hate speech, intimidation and ...

After the US-Israeli attack on Iran began, the Chinese air force stopped flying around Taiwan—and the reason isn’t at all clear. Observers have offered various possibilities, but none seems convincing ...

Vital strategic installations such as the top-secret intelligence site at Pine Gap are more than ever at risk of direct attack by China in a conflict. Beijing has scant regard for such facilities’ ...

Pacific, but they confront the same underlying problem: deep digitisation has converted efficiency into exposure.

Ukraine’s most significant success in fighting off Russia has arguably been in the Black Sea. It forced Russia’s Black Sea ...

A nightmare that has haunted generations of strategic thinkers and policymakers in Australia has come true: we live in a ...

If recent days have shown anything, it is that the United States and Israel retain the capacity to dismantle a state’s military infrastructure (and even leadership) at speed. But dismantling a regime ...

On 6 February, Indonesia and Australia signed the Australia-Indonesia Treaty on Common Security, also known as the Treaty of ...

Fifty years after the Tange reforms created the modern Australian Defence Force, Australia faces a structural problem that few are willing to confront: steady erosion of the service chiefs’ authority.