Strategy

Can Defence convert money to capability?

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It’s a brutal time to be a Commonwealth public servant working on the budget. Portfolio additional estimates statements—the mid-year budget update for portfolio agencies—were...

RN chief outlines vision to 2035

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The First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key outlined his vision for the Royal Navy to 2035 to defence and shipbuilding industry leaders at Rosyth....

Frigates and changing defence planning

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By Peter Jennings* For the moment, Defence Minister Peter Dutton has decided to stick with the troubled Hunter-class frigate program. With his usual candour, he...

Defence planning catch-up needed

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By Malcolm Davis* The 2020s have begun a period of rapid change for Australian defence planners. The government’s 2020 defence strategic update and accompanying force...

Options for Australia’s n-subs

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By Pete Sandeman* The political and strategic ramifications of the AUKUS pact involving the US, UK and Australia continue to reverberate, but the details of...

Time to ditch “non-traditional security”

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By James Goldrick and Blake Herzinger* It is high time that we remove the term “non-traditional security” from our consideration of maritime affairs, and either...

DARPA and DSTG – and a case of espionage

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By Clive Williams* When I worked at the Australian embassy in Washington in the early 1990s, I would sometimes accompany scientists from our Defence Science...

Port Darwin: lost opportunities

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By John Coyne* It seems we’ll be waiting until at least sometime in the first quarter of 2022 for the government to decide on the...

Expanding threat spectrum for surface ships

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By Sam Goldsmith* The threat spectrum for surface combatants — ships that can engage air, surface, subsurface and shore targets — is rapidly expanding and...

Implementing Australia’s nuclear submarine program

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ASPI is releasing a new report ‘Implementing Australia’s nuclear submarine program’ by Andrew Nicholls, Jackson Dowie and Dr Marcus Hellyer. This report analyses the decision space available...