At sea, drones are disruptive, but they are not decisive. They complicate the maritime fight, but they do not replace the ...

Australia has spent decades optimising infrastructure for efficiency. Strategic competition requires infrastructure optimised ...

Australia needs to make a choice: build a national critical minerals workforce or rely on foreign talent that is in short ...

In 2026, Beijing is making international engagement with Taiwan more costly. China has long sought to narrow Taiwan’s ...

Northern Australia has become a nationally significant strategic operating environment. Its industrial continuity, ...

For nearly a decade, Australia’s defence community has warned that the country lacks the industrial depth required for ...

China appears to be taking advantage of its temporary trade truce with the United States to squeeze Taiwan harder and in more ...

The long-awaited Australia-Vanuatu Nakamal Agreement (Nakamal) gives Canberra something useful, but it doesn’t appear to be ...

After several decades of unprecedented development, Asia today stands at a hinge point, writes Nick Bisley in his new book, ...

Australia’s defence debate increasingly discusses what we should build in northern Australia. The more important question is whether what already exists can survive disruption long enough to matter.

China’s military is integrating AI into logistics to make sustainment faster, better coordinated and able to support ...

Ask a minister about the Defence Delivery Agency – we did – and the first thing you’ll hear is that it won’t be DMO 2.0. From information released over the past few days, including by ...