Increasing defence spending will only provoke China
By Mike Scrafton
Good policymaking, including strategic policymaking, requires a number of steps. There has to be an objective reason why the government should or...
Amphibious landing defaults to Adelaide
ASPI on sea state:
The multinational Rim of the Pacific Exercise concluded this week with an amphibious landing trial. The US was supposed to participate,...
US–Australia relationship brings big benefits to both
By Brendan Nicholson*
The conference rooms scattered through Lockheed Martin Australia’s headquarters in Canberra are each named after high-achieving scientists and other thinkers and doers—and...
Pivoting to the Pacific
By Alexandre Dayant and Jonathan Pryke*
Over the past year, there’s been a frenzy of public interest—in Australia and beyond—in the Pacific region. The concern...
Chinese Aid to the Pacific: What are the Concerns?
By Steven Warwick*
In April, the Chinese-built Luganville Wharf in Vanuatu prompted an Australian journalist to suggest that this might eventually lead to a Chinese...
Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2018 concludes
The world's largest international maritime exercise concluded Aug. 2 following more than a month of training events conducted in and around the Hawaiian Islands...
Australia and the rules-based order of the oceans
By Professor Robin Warner
As one of the key maritime nations in the southern hemisphere and a prominent middle power, Australia has an important role...
Australia’s Plan B: time for some tough realism
By Anthony Milner*
In October 2016, before the US presidential election, I suggested that Australia was entering a foreign-policy crisis period—given the relative decline of...
Australian frigate decision analysed
World Naval Developments July 2018
By Norman Friedman*
At the end of June, the Royal Australian Navy announced that it had selected a version of the...
Ham and eggs: who’s really committed in the Indo-Pacific?
By John Powers*
When you order ham and eggs, you can be sure the pig is committed. The chook, well, it’s interested, but not like...