Should China help secure the Strait of Hormuz?
By Euan Graham*
US President Donald Trump’s recent tweet on the Strait of Hormuz, in which he said that Asian countries ‘should be protecting their own ships’...
Future-proofing the Attack class
By Derek Woolner and David Glynne Jones*
In part 1, we discussed how we ensure we get the right propulsion system for Australia’s Attack-class submarines. We argued...
The Pacific: pinching pennies doesn’t make for policy longevity
By Shane McLeod and Jonathan Pryke
When it comes to “stepping-up” in the Pacific, Australians get the what, they get the who, and they get...
How to Defend Australia
Book Review: How to Defend Australia, by Hugh White (La Trobe University Press, 2019)
Reviewer: Sam Roggeveen
Defence commentator Hugh White never shouts from the rooftops, and...
America’s new Asia strategy opens doors for Australia
By Peter Jennings*
The United States is rapidly restructuring its military presence in Asia and rethinking how it could fight a major conventional war in...
No longer in a cleft stick: India and Australia
By Aakriti Bachhawat*
India has assumed far greater prominence in Australian strategic thinking in recent times, as a potential economic and political counterweight...
Revisiting the north in the defence of Australia
By Paul Dibb*
The idea of the north of Australia being central to the new concept of the defence of Australia in the 1970s derived...
China ups construction of amphibious assault ships
The eighth Type 071 (Yuzhao)-class amphibious assault ship on order for China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) was launched at the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in...
West faces a new threat from ‘political warfare’
By Brendan Nicholson*
Western democracies risk being outmanoeuvred by totalitarian powers unrestrained by rules and willing to use information campaigns, cyber operations, theft of intellectual...
The case for a new defence white paper
By Peter Jennings*
Successful defence white papers have to find the right resting place between four sets of demands: politics; strategy and policy; military capability;...