Recent events in the Middle East have turned the fuel vulnerability Australia confronted during the Red Sea disruptions last ...

Australia’s response to antisemitism and other forms of prejudice is increasingly framed through the language of national security. That instinct is understandable. Hate speech, intimidation and ...

A debate over Chinese-made electric buses has arrived in Australia with familiar speed. Talk of potential kill switches has prompted calls to rip and replace foreign vehicles and turn to domestic ...

Vital strategic installations such as the top-secret intelligence site at Pine Gap are more than ever at risk of direct attack by China in a conflict. Beijing has scant regard for such facilities’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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