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Apathy at our own peril: Polling reveals growing segment of Australian society unfazed by Beijing's provocations, threat
Just weeks following the successful test launch of nuclear-capable ballistic missile in our region, new polling has revealed a gro...
Visionary Machines, Thales set to trial counter-drone detection system next month
Visionary Machines and Thales are working together to trial a new combined counter-uncrewed aircraft detection system to support t...
Queensland commits $4.5 million investment for new cranes, defence revitalisation at Cairncross Docklands
The Queensland Government has announced $4.5 million in investment funding for critical maritime infrastructure at Cairncross Dock...
Navy vessel joins US for Indonesian humanitarian exercise
HMAS Choules has arrived on Indonesian shores ahead of Exercise Pacific Partnership.
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Raytheon UK introduces Red Kite precision weapon using Stormbreaker airframe
Raytheon UK has introduced Red Kite, its first sovereign precision weapon fully designed and digitally engineered in the United Ki...
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Luckey forecasts American return to ‘weapons sales, friendship’ with reformed China
“America will have a great international friendship and sell weapons to a reformed China in the future”, according to US defence...
January 12 2026
Wait a minute, is America invading Greenland?
US President Donald J Trump is no stranger to using military threats as a political play, with much of his second term, thus far, being defined by his foreign policy moves,...
January 09 2026
Nuclear proliferation is back on the menu as regional competition drives anxiety
With regional power struggles and conflict setting the scene for intensified geopolitical and strategic competition in 2026, nuclear proliferation may once again be a major...
January 08 2026
The old order is dead, long live the new world order
As the saying goes, “The king is dead, long live the king” and nowhere is that a truer statement than in the case of the international “rules-based”...
January 07 2026
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 diaspora communities that...
January 06 2026
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 we...
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