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

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

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 ...

For decades, northern Australia has been discussed as a frontier for economic development. More recently, it has become ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Indonesia’s defence policy is moving in two directions at once. Externally, it is pursuing procurement and modernisation ...

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

Japan quasi-alliance is not a hedge against US unreliability, nor should it be seen in purely bilateral terms. Rather, it is ...