What is Australia’s grand strategy?
By Lesley Seebeck*
Having a coherent strategy matters. It allows the effective allocation of scarce resources. It provides a framework against which events and trends...
AUKUS: looking beyond submarines
By Malcolm Davis*
The AUKUS agreement with the United States and Britain opens many opportunities to develop the Australian Defence Force in new directions beyond...
A stronger Navy faster
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has released a new report 'Building a stronger Navy, faster', which recommends a path forward to address the growing...
Defending maritime interests
By Jimmy Drennan*
The ongoing supply chain crisis is a sobering reminder that American maritime interests have always been about more than national defense. The...
Risk aversion and secrecy costing US
Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is about to retire after four decades in uniform, and...
Defence conversation must go beyond subs
By Michael Shoebridge*
Most of Defence’s grilling in Senate estimates yesterday was about plans and issues around getting eight nuclear submarines for the Royal Australian...
A maritime strategy Part 3
By Robert C. Rubel*
The more deeply one thinks about strategy the harder it is to pin down exactly what it is. This problem is...
N-subs: militarism lacking strategy
By Sian Troth*
Australia’s intentions to acquire nuclear powered submarines raise an important question: what are the submarines for? It appears that strategic rationale has...
New maritime strategy (part 2)
By Robert C. Rubel*
Congresswoman Elaine Luria has called for the development of a new maritime strategy. Among its purposes would be the rationalization of...
Maritime strategy: the real issues
By Robert C. Rubel*
In a July article Congresswoman Elaine Luria called for the development of a new maritime strategy. A key reason she wrote...