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    Australia needs better disaster management and risk reduction education

    Paul Barnes     |      June 22, 2018

    While there have been some notable moves to improve management of national resilience issues, non-natural hazards pose a range of challenges that need to be factored into current thinking and practice.

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    Ethical limits fracture as Chinese espionage intensifies

    Greg Austin     |      June 21, 2018

    China’s espionage capability is now so extensive it’s hard to imagine its limits and Western companies and governments are becoming more willing participants.

    • Defence and Security

    This is not a drill: A cyberthreat reality check

    Ali Moore     |      June 15, 2018

    It’s difficult, if not impossible, to find a security expert who doesn’t think that a major cyber-attack on Australia with potentially devastating consequences is inevitable at some point in the future.

    • Defence and Security

    Bringing to light what goes on in the shadows

    Brendan Nicholson     |      June 15, 2018

    Allegations of appalling behaviour by a small number of Australian special forces soldiers accused of killing unarmed prisoners in Afghanistan must be properly investigated but also raise questions about the overuse of special forces compared to infantry personnel.

    • Defence and Security

    Building a ‘brilliant’ Australian Defence Force

    Mick Ryan     |      June 13, 2018

    The potential applications of artificial intelligence in the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ will inevitably have important implications for the future of defence.

    • Defence and Security

    Australia and the shifting regional order

    Rod Lyon     |      June 12, 2018

    How should Australia deal with the rise of China? Our objective should be to shape a regional balance of power more favourable to our interests, recruiting new supporters to the coalition of powers that favours a stable, prosperous and liberal Asia.

    • Defence and Security

    China tightens its grip on the South China Sea

    Sam Bateman     |      June 10, 2018

    China continues to develop denial-of-access capabilities, while the United States is focussing on offensively oriented concepts to assert access. But these strategies only add to the security dilemma for both Washington and Beijing.

    • Defence and Security

    Comprehensive coercion: China’s ‘political warfare’ campaign against Australia

    Ross Babbage     |      June 7, 2018

    The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington has released a new report, “Countering Comprehensive Coercion”, which explains how China has been conducting political warfare against Australia for more than a decade.

    • Defence and Security

    Australia’s real choice about China

    Hugh White     |      June 6, 2018

    Australia’s problem with China is bigger and simpler than we think, and thus harder to solve. The central issue is that China wants to replace the United States as the primary power in East Asia, and we don’t want that to happen.

    • Defence and Security

    Are we preparing to fight the wrong war?

    Kym Bergmann     |      May 31, 2018

    Are we preparing to fight the wrong war? That’s the question being asked increasingly frequently by Australian defence planners, especially in the RAAF. What makes some people nervous are a number of emerging disruptive technologies that will have a profound effect on military operations in the very near future.

    • Defence and Security

    A ‘new normal’ in the South China Sea?

    Mark Valencia     |      May 30, 2018

    The United States and China have apparently reached a tacit agreement to avoid outright confrontation in the disputed South China Sea. Relations between ASEAN claimants and between ASEAN and China rest on a similar plateau but long term rapprochement remains a distant prospect.

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    China’s strategic push in the South China Sea

    Malcolm Davis     |      May 23, 2018

    In a highly provocative move, China has deployed anti‑ship cruise missiles and surface-to-air missile systems on three reefs converted to military bases on Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef and Subi Reef in disputed territory in the South China Sea.

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