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ASPI at 25 – After 25 years, ASPI’s role is more important than ever

It was 25 years ago that the Australian Strategic Policy Institute opened its doors, an event that both of us believed in. By the beginning of 2001 we had developed the view that establishing a ...
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ASPI at 25 – Inside ASPI and outside it: contesting ideas

Twenty-five years ago, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute began with a deceptively simple proposition: Australian strategic policy would be better if the ideas informing it were contested. I ...
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ASPI at 25 – shaping Australia’s relationship with its most important neighbour

Few bilateral relationships matter more to Australia than the one with Indonesia, and few have changed as much over the past ...
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ASPI at 25 – a quarter-century of analysis and influence

Qaeda, Vladimir Putin, China’s military ambitions and cyber capabilities, and the advantages of nuclear submarines resided ...
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Australia’s AI future relies on our scientific capability

This week is National Science Week. When the Minister for Industry, Senator Tim Ayres, launched it at Questacon, he put it ...
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The anti-ballistic missile shortage

In six months of on-again, off-again fighting with Iran, the United States has effectively exhausted its supply of heavy air ...
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Fault Lines – Putin’s Kurils trip, US’s carrier gap, China’s NZ espionage

Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actions ...
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South Asia’s digital transformation should be a focus for India

India needs to pay greater attention to South Asia’s digital transformation as part of its regional strategy. Digital ...
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The Strategist on: "25 years of ASPI"

Twenty-five years ago, the world’s knowledge of al-Qaeda, Vladimir Putin, China’s military ambitions and cyber capabilities, and the advantages of nuclear submarines resided mainly in the classified ...
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Indonesia’s China exercise was a judgement failure, not an alignment shift

News about an Indonesian frigate exercising with a Chinese warship 130 to 150 km east of Taiwan was always going to raise ...
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North Korea Is Learning from War. The US–South Korea Alliance Must Keep Pace

President Donald Trump’s instruction to the Pentagon on Sunday to ‘substantially reduce’ joint military exercises with South ...
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Worth a try: the US will authorise some companies for cyber counterattacks

The United States has had enough in cyberspace. The White House has now created a program under which American companies can ...