AI-powered autonomous weapons, operating with little or no human supervision, offer speed, scale and lower costs, but they also raise hard questions about who stays in control. In this selection of ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his address to the United Nations General Assembly to make an important point about ...

The Australian Army doesn’t own many of the systems that its future combat power depends on. Ports, fuel supplies, freight ...

Australia is accepting significant risk in mine countermeasures, a capability once seen as essential. While investing heavily ...

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

As much as the federal budget needs fixing, shifting more disaster risk onto Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western ...

Australia’s sovereignty debate can sometimes get tied up in knots. Sovereignty does not mean isolated self-sufficiency.

The Australian Army’s workforce is more educated, technically proficient and connected to emerging technology than any ...

China’s leading tech companies are no longer the copycats of yesteryear.  Contrary to many perceptions in the West, they are ...

Potential Japanese acquisition of nuclear weapons is an under-appreciated deterrent to a Chinese attempt at seizing Taiwan.

There are weeks when decades happen’ has been a stock phrase to remember this summer. The missile wars between Ukraine and ...

At Davos this year, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said ‘middle powers must act together because if you are not at the ...