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Saudi–Pakistan defensive pact reveals the new ‘multipolar’ reality Australia seems reluctant to accept
The reality of a multipolar world is now inescapable, with former rivals Saudi Arabia and Pakistan recently inking a mutual defensive pact, forming...
September 24 2025
Indonesia set to join regional ‘carrier club’, leaving Australia behind the curve again
The Indonesian government has allegedly approved a US$450 million (AU$682.5 million) loan to acquire the Italian Navy’s retired aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi,...
September 23 2025
Mask-off moment: Regional response to PNG defence treaty push reveals truth of multipolar world
The prime minister’s failure to deliver a defence treaty with Papua New Guinea and the mounting response from regional nations expressing concern have only served to...
September 22 2025
Naval readiness begins ashore: Infrastructure is the weak link
Opinion: Australia’s Navy risks being strong on paper but constrained in practice without modern, resilient infrastructure to sustain operations across two oceans....
September 19 2025
Australia falling behind playing the ‘Great Game’ in the Indo-Pacific spells trouble
The prime minister has returned from the region empty-handed and empty-pocketed, meaning only one thing: Australia is in danger of losing the “Great Game” playing...
September 18 2025
Outside the box thinking critical to hitting 3.5% spending figure: Mick Ryan
With debate once again focusing on the nation’s rate of defence spending, Major General (Ret’d) Mick Ryan AM is calling for some out of the box areas to be...
September 17 2025
Size does matter: Team Albanese works hard to make the Defence budget look ‘bigglier’
Opinion: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has two choices on Australian defence spending as he prepares to meet US President Donald Trump in New York (hopefully, perhaps),...
September 16 2025
‘Don’t fear the dragon’, warns former Aussie ambassador to Beijing
Beijing’s recent victory parade to commemorate the end of the Second World War is no cause for alarm according to a former Australian ambassador to Beijing. But is it a...
September 15 2025
Hit and miss: PM’s Pacific tour records some wins and losses, but competition is the new normal
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has wrapped up a whirlwind tour of the Pacific Islands, hoping to win over friends across the region; however, one Pacific leader has warned...
September 12 2025
Defence spending as a critical economic driver: UK Defence Industrial Strategy heralds age-old shift in thinking
The UK government is seeking to turn an age-old belief that defence spending since the end of World War II does little to boost economic growth and opportunity; by turning...
September 11 2025
ERA, plate armour and steel cages: How Ukraine is improving M1A1 Abrams tanks
Ukrainian technicians are modifying Australian M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks with reactive armour blocks, frontal armour plating and rooftop steel cages in a fast-paced,...
September 10 2025
3% on defence will seem like a bargain if US plans for Indo-Pac pullback come to fruition
Recent leaks about America’s 2026 National Defense Strategy have set tongues wagging and no doubt will trigger heightened anxiety in Canberra as US isolationism and...
September 09 2025
Report: Climate change must be at the core of Australian foreign policy
The climate crisis isn’t just a shibboleth of the Left – it’s a national security challenge Australia must meet.
September 08 2025
Lessons from Washington: How US slashed red tape while Australia drowns in it!
Opinion: After a week of high-level meetings in Washington DC, while the US is rapidly cutting red tape, embracing risk and pouring billions into defence innovation,...
September 05 2025
China’s 2025 Victory Day parade was flawless, and that should worry Western nations
The People’s Republic of China’s 2025 Victory Day parade was a flawless display of advanced military hardware, evolving technological concepts and solid strategic goals....
September 03 2025
Maps, ports and proxies: What Turkey’s experiments teach Australia and the Indo-Pacific about China’s coercion
Opinion: Turkey’s coercive experiments in maritime claims, proxies, ports and drones provide the beta version of a playbook now scaled by China across the Indo-Pacific,...
September 03 2025
Comedian Jim Jefferies shares grief over nephew’s ADF death in ‘Taipan cover-up’
Stand-up comedian and actor Jim Jefferies has shared his grief and frustration at the loss of nephew and Australian Defence Force pilot Maxwell Nugent during an MRH-90 Taipan...
September 02 2025
If not us, then who? The question of who defends Australia hasn’t disappeared, no matter how hard we try
It is an age-old question: “If we don’t take our own security seriously, then how can we expect anyone else to?” Yet for Australia, it seems to once again...
September 01 2025
Despite current doubts, a way forward for AUKUS remains
Making sure the AUKUS pact remains viable and eventually successful is a major “strategic imperative,” one that is still possible, one US think tank contends.
August 29 2025
Elephant in the room: Iranian attacks raise concern about state-sponsored public coercion
After the recently confirmed Iranian attacks in Sydney and Melbourne, should we be concerned about grey zone warfare campaigns to utilise public radicalisation in Australia?
August 28 2025
