Military protection has never existed simply to keep soldiers alive or platforms intact. Its enduring purpose has always been ...

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

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

Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actions ...

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

The war in Ukraine has become increasingly technological. Take unmanned systems: Kyiv has successfully implemented a drone ...

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 ...

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

While Australia correctly prioritises the development of domestic industry, the Australian Defence Force is not a sufficient ...

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

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