For 80 years, there was an expectation that when international crises threatened to spiral into war, the United Nations would ...

Australia should open talks on joining the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) now, before the institution’s lending rules are written without an Indo-Pacific member at the table. The DSRB is ...

The Australian Defence Force is on a strong trajectory to become an integrated force greater than the sum of its parts, incorporating all five domains. Competition for people and resources across the ...

On 6 to 7 August 2026, Philippine Secretary of National Defense Gilbert Teodoro visited Darwin on the tail end of Exercise ...

Australia’s strategic thinking, increasingly focused on deterrence, has yet to distinguish the conditions that make deterrence effective from the framework through which Australia intends to implement ...

In his fireside with former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon at the 2026 ASPI Defence Conference, Senator James Paterson took ...

Generating operational mass in the Indo-Pacific requires new approaches to projecting, sustaining and employing military ...

American gun rights advocates are fond of saying that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun ...

Australia has a new chief of the defence force, Admiral Mark Hammond, and here are three issues he should take on as he ...

In Australian foreign policy, there has long been a tension between those who place preponderant weight on our alliance ...

No one should expect diplomatic pressure alone to make Beijing abandon a sovereignty claim. Ten years ago this month, a ...

When China’s supreme leader Deng Xiaoping in December 1978 announced the ‘reform and opening’ of China’s economy, many ...