The difficulty of managing global responsibilities while maintaining democratic values and processes has been made evident ...

Critical minerals now sit at the centre of Australia’s strategic future. But geology alone will not secure national resilience or regional transformation. Australia must decide whether it will build a ...

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 ...

JAUKUS may yet be possible. I argued in 2023 that Japan couldn’t be added to AUKUS Pillar Two because it lacked legal and ...

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 ...

Saturday night, a missile struck the United States 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, a base where I served in 2023. That strike is a reminder of how much the strategic landscape has hardened in ...

If BRICS can assemble an economic and political coalition with strategic intent, why shouldn’t the Commonwealth countries?

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

US-Israeli airstrikes may dominate the footage from Tehran, but a decisive contest is also unfolding in code: a live ...

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

The 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics were arguably the greatest ever. Their preparation also kickstarted the last quarter century of Australian national security capability building—considerably before ...

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