Analysis

The front inside Australia: How China, Iran and Turkey project power through diaspora coercion
Opinion: Bondi exposed how Australia confronts visible terror decisively but still hesitates to name and stop quieter foreign-state coercion of...
January 06 2026
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2025 was a big year for China’s military, it’s only going to continue
The year 2025 has been a major mask slip moment for the scale, scope and reach of Beijing’s military modernisation efforts, with Australia and its partners put on...
January 02 2026
The answer to our economic woes? National capitalism in the multipolar era
Amid rising concerns over Australia’s economic productivity, resilience and competitiveness and the flow-on risks for national security, questions are increasingly...
December 18 2025
Australian, Japanese strategic interests converge at critical juncture
Australian and Japanese strategic interests are progressively converging in the new era of Indo-Pacific strategic anxiety.
December 18 2025
Arresting the decline of globalisation: Should Australia and Japan establish a new ‘Co-Prosperity Sphere’?
As the era of hyper-globalisation gives way to more siloed, contested and “neo-nationalist” economic systems, trade is becoming the new norm, but that...
December 17 2025
Allies put on notice: US National Security Strategy has major implications for Australia
The long-awaited Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy has finally been handed down, with major implications for Australia and other partner nations,...
December 16 2025
Bondi was a national security message
Opinion: Strategic analyst Shay Gal says the Bondi attack was a deliberate probe, using a visible Jewish community to test Australia’s security, expose public-space...
December 15 2025
Blurred lines: Can China’s international fishing fleet break Australian fish stocks and national spirit?
A land girt by sea could be particularly vulnerable to grey-zone warfare tactics designed to break the ecosystem or civilian relationship with that sea.
December 11 2025
US and China global power struggle not a repeat of Cold War, says former CDF Campbell
The global power struggle between the United States and China is not a repeat of the Cold War, according to recent comments made by former Australian Defence Force Chief of...
December 10 2025
Bomber rotations, hypersonic missile production among AUSMIN bonanza
Hypersonic cruise missile co-production, bomber rotations, cyber coordination and streamlined export processes have featured prominently among a raft of joint military...
December 09 2025
‘Total collapse’: Strategic policy expert warns New World Order is here
For some, rumours of the demise of the post-Second World War global “rules-based” order have been overstated. For others, it is continuing at pace. For author and...
December 08 2025
Report findings: Australia to refine business definitions, reallocate defence spending for ‘sovereign dividend’
The Australian government needs to more clearly refine “Australian business” definitions and reallocate domestic spending from foreign-owned subsidiaries to...
December 05 2025
Power projection, ‘war-winning’ forces critical to security in region: Retired USINDOPACOM commander warns
Beijing’s growing power projection capabilities, on display close to home, have once again demonstrated a growing need for regional nations, including Australia, to...
December 04 2025
Want to fix Defence? Start by cutting bureaucratic bloat
Opinion: Same people, same jobs, new structure – but somehow performance will improve. This story has been told before, explains Strategic Analysis Australia’s...
December 03 2025
Going around in circles: Potential for another Chinese task group serves to reinforce national vulnerability
Speculation that another Chinese naval taskforce is steaming south with Australia once again in its sights should be reinforcing the nation’s vulnerability, all while...
December 02 2025
The wheels have fallen off: Australia’s economic ‘managed decline’ is beginning to look terminal
Ask many average Aussies and they will undoubtedly tell you that the wheels of our “economic miracle” have well and truly fallen off. Now there is a growing...
December 01 2025
Australia can’t afford a BAU approach to AUKUS Pillar 2 investment
Opinion: Australia risks squandering AUKUS Pillar 2 unless it urgently shifts from slow, consultancy-driven processes to fast, practical, bottom-up capability building that...
November 28 2025
Setting the record straight: Australia can reindustrialise, we just have to get the settings right
If the experts are to be believed, Australia’s period as a manufacturing nation has gone the way of the dodo. But what if they’re wrong?
November 27 2025
‘She’ll be right’ won’t save us in face of the perfect storm
Australians have long celebrated the flexibility of the distinctly Australian psychological phenomenon of “she’ll be right” and the belief that no matter...
November 26 2025
The lesson Canberra can’t learn at home
Opinion: Australia must learn from front-line states: alliances are slow so survival requires building sovereign strength and self-reliant deterrence before crises, says...
November 25 2025