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Food will decide the human future
Julian Cribb | August 27, 2019Our future supply of food is filled with risk, and history tells us that lack of food leads to conflict. In his new book “Food or War” Australian author Julian Cribb calls for a new food system capable of meeting global needs on our increasingly hot and overcrowded planet.
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The hard edge of soft power
Dom Dwyer | August 26, 2019The original Colombo Plan gave students from Asia and the Pacific a chance to study in Australia, and now a New Colombo Plan is sending Australians abroad to learn from our regional neighbours.
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More arms won’t win the political war
Tom Uren | August 25, 2019By failing to be forthcoming and transparent about foreign disinformation campaigns, the Australian government is effectively ceding the ‘high ground’ of political warfare to our ideological adversaries.
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Securing consensus on national security
John McCarthy | August 21, 2019With the federal election out of the way, and some welcome stability in the leadership of the major political parties in prospect, Australia now faces the challenge of forging a national consensus on an external security policy that reflects our self-confidence and maturity as a nation.
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Hastie’s right: it’s time to protect ourselves
Ross Babbage | August 19, 2019Andrew Hastie’s warning that an intellectual failure to accept that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s vision for the world will test our democratic values, economy, alliances and security as never before is the blunt wake-up call that Australians need.
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Australia’s ‘unbreakable alliance’
Brendan Nicholson | August 18, 2019Washington’s ambassador to Australia, Arthur Culvahouse, has used a speech to ASPI to stress the strength of the alliance with the United States and to reject suggestions that China and America are involved in a new cold war.
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Special forces’ approach to technological change offers a model for others
Michael Shoebridge | August 15, 2019New procurement principles and practice spearheaded by Australia’s special forces can reduce project risks across the defence budget while embracing more rapid technological change.
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How to defend Australia
Hugh White | August 14, 2019The task Australia faces in deciding its future levels of defence spending is to balance that risk against the cost of building the armed forces required to deal with it.
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Do it right in defence
Andrew Davies | August 2, 2019Australia must think hard about the capabilities that will best enable our forces to prosecute the most vital missions against our most likely adversaries.
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National security should turn to the cloud
Michael Shoebridge | August 1, 2019A move now to secure cloud infrastructure is required if Australia’s national security agencies are to maintain and improve their capability.
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How not to defend Australia?
Peter Jennings | July 28, 2019Hugh White’s “How to defend Australia” is an elegant book but it’s fundamentally wrong on just about every judgement it contains.
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It’s time for a public–private partnership in national security
Anthony Bergin | July 25, 2019The threats we face don’t recognise the walls that exist between Australian businesses and national security agencies. To safeguard Australia, we need to put more doors in those divisions.