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Nova Systems marks a decade of support to the ADF Pilot Training System
Nova Systems has marked ten years of continuous support to Lockheed Martin Australia’s Pilot Training Systems for the Australian...
Lockheed Martin signs with US government to expand PAC-3 capabilities
Lockheed Martin has secured a landmark contract to integrate its PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptor into the Aegis Comb...
Australian Army research paper advocates for Australian national cyber reserve force, volunteer cyber organisations
A newly published Australian Army Research Centre paper has highlighted the need for Australia to establish an Australian national...
Winners revealed in Defence & National Security Workforce Awards 2026
A total of 17 winners have been selected from more than 90 finalists for the third annual Defence & National Security Workforc...
PODCAST: Anzac Day reflections, veteran support reform and ADF workforce trends, with Minister Matt Keogh
How can Australia improve veteran support while strengthening recruitment, retention and workforce pathways in the Australian Defe...
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Defence releases new approaches to market
The Commonwealth has released a raft of new approaches to market in an effort to continue building Australian defence capability, including...
October 28 2024
If Japan could use an economic security strategy, shouldn’t Australia consider one also?
Tokyo-based Rintaro Nishimura of The Asia Group has called on the Japanese government to consider a holistic, big-picture economic security strategy as the next logical...
October 25 2024
New president, new vision: Subianto advocates for ‘non-aligned, self-sufficient’ Indonesia
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has made some bold aspirations for the future of the country during his inauguration speech this week.
October 24 2024
Time to break the mould on Australian defence planning
Despite cosmetic changes, for all intents and purposes, Australia’s defence posture and planning has changed little since the seminal 1986 Dibb Review and supporting...
October 23 2024
Potential missile consumption prompts urgent need for Indo-Pacific defence initiative
If there is one key takeaway from both the conflicts in Ukraine and in the Middle East, it is the concerning rate at which critical munitions, particularly...
October 22 2024
Slow on the uptake: Growing Australian recognition that overstretched US can’t do all the heavy lifting
It has taken a while, but Australian media and commentators are finally waking up to the uncomfortable reality that America can no longer be the sole bulwark against the...
October 21 2024
Homeless veterans deserve more than platitudes – they deserve results
Vasey RSL Care wants government to meet it halfway to support homeless veterans – but Labor is ignoring its request.
October 18 2024
Training before game day: Takeaways from China’s most recent encirclement of Taiwan
The dust has quickly settled on one of the People’s Republic of China’s largest and most complex joint military drills, Joint Sword-2024B, in the Taiwan Strait.
October 17 2024
The turmoil within: Should we be worried about Team Marles?
For Australia’s defence-focused revitalisation to be successful, we need unity and strength from our governmental leadership, not this recent public display of...
October 16 2024
Does the IIP focus on ‘Theatre Command and Control’ provide the opportunity for us to get northern infrastructure right?
The government’s 2024 Integrated Investment Program (IIP) emphasised the importance of “Theatre Command and Control”, giving echoes of General Douglas...
October 15 2024
A third way? Navigating the uncomfortable tension in Australia’s strategic policy
Australia, as a nation, has long been caught in a Gordian knot of sorts, torn between its location in the Indo-Pacific and as a “European” nation in Asia and its...
October 14 2024
The low-flying challenge: Drone defence and the RAAF
An award-winning essay by an RAAF corporal lays out the significant challenges posed by commercially available drones in the military sphere.
October 11 2024
Image crisis: National reset needed for Australian Defence Force uniforms in public
Australia is in need of a national reset on the opinions and policies concerning the image of Australian Defence Force uniformed personnel in public.
October 10 2024
The Finnish model? Learning lessons from Europe’s ‘other’ front line
Finland has long been on the front line of Europe’s efforts to contain Soviet/Russian aggression, with the small country demonstrating a number of times how a...
October 09 2024
Life in the clouds: RAAF’s longest-serving pilot retires after 48 years of flight
The longest-serving Air Force fighter pilot and fast jet instructor, Squadron Leader Stephen Bihary, has retired from the cockpit after 48 years of flying.
October 08 2024
Success leaves clues: The mounting lessons for Australia from Israel’s startling successes
For many, Israel’s capacity to actively defend itself while simultaneously conducting offensive operations across the Middle East has come as a surprise; for others,...
October 07 2024
International sanctions have grown year on year – but are they working?
Russia remains one of the key targets of economic sanctions by bodies from the US, EU, the UK, and the United Nations as the war in Ukraine grinds towards its third year.
October 04 2024
Unfit for purpose: UK House of Lords committee warns of lacking in British military capability in aftermath of Ukraine
Lord de Mauley, chair of the UK House of Lords’ International Relations and Defence Committee, has launched a scathing attack following a report into the state of the...
October 03 2024
PLA propaganda footage exposes weakness in Australia’s secrecy obsession
The recent release of propaganda film footage by China’s People’s Liberation Army has exposed weaknesses in the ongoing secrecy obsession and paralysed approvals...
October 02 2024
Taiwan and fallout should be our focus, warns strategic policy expert
Vaunted Australian strategist and the father of the “Defence of Australia” policy, Paul Dibb, has warned that Australia needs to rapidly refocus on the potential...
October 01 2024
