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UK first Boeing E-7 Wedgetail aircraft arrives ahead of service with Royal Air Force
The United Kingdom’s first Boeing E-7 Wedgetail Airbourne Early Warning Mk1 aircraft has arrived at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland ...
2026 run of Exercise Balikatan officially closes out in Manila
The largest rendition of Exercise Balikatan has closed out in Manila, with defence members from around the world formally celebrat...
Europe is preparing for war — and the rest of the world will pay the price
Opinion: Norway’s cancellation of Malaysia’s Naval Strike Missile deal underscores Europe’s accelerating wartime industrial ...
Australia and Canada team up on South China Sea exercise
Australia and Canada have teamed up to strengthen their naval capabilities in the South China Sea.
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Lockheed, Northrop, Thales successfully detonate co-produced warhead in NSW
Lockheed Martin Australia in partnership with Northrop Grumman Australia and Thales Australia have conducted the successful detona...
Opinion
Artificial intelligence in the defence context: Levels of employment, the DIKW hierarchy and human factors
Opinion: AI is reshaping modern warfare across every level of conflict while reinforcing the need for human judgement and sovereign Australian...
May 21 2026
Hardware elsewhere: Russia’s sombre Victory Day parade spooked by drone threats
Russia’s imposing array of military hardware and visiting foreign officials were thin on the ground during the country’s recent Victory Day, both groups likely spooked by...
May 18 2026
Defence industry responds to 2026 federal budget
The release of the 2026 federal budget has been dubbed the most “important and ambitious budget in decades”, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
May 14 2026
The Hormuz precedent: Maritime tolls and the future of global shipping
Opinion: Iran has effectively set up a maritime toll booth in the Strait of Hormuz. The United States has threatened to sanction anyone who pays the toll, yet the toll booth...
May 11 2026
Australia’s manufacturing problem is not capability, it’s control
Opinion: Australia’s manufacturing problem is not capability. It is control.
April 30 2026
Honouring sacrifice: Taking ourselves seriously is the least we can do
Anzac Day is widely held as the most sacred day in Australia’s national calendar. A day when the country comes together to commemorate the sacrifice of the nation’s best...
April 28 2026
Behind the hoopla, the government is leaving our military badly underequipped in the drone era
Opinion: The government’s headline $7 billion counter-drone plan is largely smoke and mirrors, spreading funds over a decade into legacy systems while leaving Australia...
April 23 2026
Is Australian soft power losing currency in a rapidly hardening world?
It’s been called the collapse of the global rules-based order.
April 22 2026
Industry expresses mixed views on 2026 National Defence Strategy
The 2026 National Defence Strategy has been welcomed with mixed reviews from industry leaders and defence strategists, with both critiques and praises coming through.
April 20 2026
Stuffed it: Middle East adventures throw economy, allies and stability into disarray
Opinion: By now it is pretty clear that the conflict in the Middle East responsible for constraining at least 20–25 per cent of the world’s oil supply is going from bad...
April 02 2026
Information sharing of cyber threats vital to national security
Opinion: Modern conflict shows cyber operations and rapid intelligence sharing are essential to national resilience, but Australia must overcome legal, cultural and technical...
April 01 2026
AUKUS submarines: US and UK partners show the realities facing Australia’s small fleet
Opinion: Even in a best-case scenario, Australia’s eight nuclear submarines would likely produce only about two consistently deployable boats due to maintenance, workforce...
March 30 2026
From Pine Gap to HMAS Stirling: Australia must reclaim strategic authorship
Opinion: Australia risks remaining legally sovereign while effectively operating within allied military systems unless it asserts greater control over how its territory is...
March 30 2026
Trump the unilateralist becomes Trump the multilateralist – for now
Opinion: Donald Trump’s administration is now urging other countries to secure the Strait of Hormuz, exposing both American strategic misjudgement and Australia’s...
March 17 2026
Pentagon pushes to accelerate weapons procurement as strategic competition intensifies
Opinion: The United States is overhauling defence procurement to deliver military technology faster, expand industry competition and harness commercial innovation, explains...
March 16 2026
Ignorance is bliss: Technological self-denial is death on the modern battlefield
On the modern battlefield, technology developed by Iran, Russia and China has often been characterised as being copied or adapted from Western designs.
March 13 2026
Japan turns to dual-use technology to power a new defence industrial strategy
Opinion: Japan is rapidly integrating dual-use technologies and civilian innovation into its defence strategy to strengthen supply chains, expand defence exports and deepen...
March 11 2026
Energy-minerals-defence: Australia’s sovereign trinity
Opinion: Australia must shift its sovereignty focus from labelling industries to strengthening interconnected systems like energy security, critical minerals access, and...
March 05 2026
Washington’s Iran gamble and Australia’s strategic stakes
Opinion: A strike on the United States Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain underscores the escalating conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran, with the outcome likely to...
March 03 2026
Intergenerational warfare: The social cohesion issue no one wants to broach
With much of Australia’s political and policy discourse since 14 December focused on social cohesion and the intersection with national security, why have we failed to...
February 25 2026