On this year’s International Women’s Day, UN Women encourages us to consider how we can ‘balance the scales’ for women in all areas of society—in other words, how can we build a world that provides ...

Pacific, but they confront the same underlying problem: deep digitisation has converted efficiency into exposure.

Ukraine’s most significant success in fighting off Russia has arguably been in the Black Sea. It forced Russia’s Black Sea ...

A nightmare that has haunted generations of strategic thinkers and policymakers in Australia has come true: we live in a ...

On 6 February, Indonesia and Australia signed the Australia-Indonesia Treaty on Common Security, also known as the Treaty of ...

Fifty years after the Tange reforms created the modern Australian Defence Force, Australia faces a structural problem that few are willing to confront: steady erosion of the service chiefs’ authority.

If recent days have shown anything, it is that the United States and Israel retain the capacity to dismantle a state’s military infrastructure (and even leadership) at speed. But dismantling a regime ...

Concrete and ribbon-cutting events don’t sustain wars; fuel, power, logistics and people do. Australia has invested ...

Amid alarm stemming from President Donald Trump’s on-and-off-again tariff rise this week, let’s not lose our ability to ...

Eight decades after the end of World War II, history’s largest conflict still has lessons for Australia. Among the most important is that we must expect large-scale mobilisation. Today, despite our ...

The health of Australia’s democracy; the combined freedom, security and resilience of its society; and the credibility of its ...

On 19 February 1942, Japanese aircraft attacked the harbour and town in what remains the largest single assault ever mounted on Australian soil. For much of Australia, it’s a historical reference ...