Australia faces unprecedented set of security challenges
By Albert Palazzo*
There’s broad agreement among defence thinkers and academics that the international security environment is on the cusp of significant change. Dominating the...
Nuship Brisbane on sea trials
NUSHIP Brisbane is the second of three destroyers being built and integrated by the Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance, comprised of the Department of Defence,...
Beijing’s maritime ‘gifts’
By Euan Graham*
China’s growing naval and paramilitary might receives daily attention. But what of China’s emerging role as a provider of capacity to coastal...
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...