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A mountain of missiles
James Dwyer | March 24, 2023Order is a product of power, and the purchase in recent years of a range of modern missile systems will help Australia deter aggression in the region in the years to come.
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Continuity in strategic planning
Brendan Nicholson | March 19, 2023The former Australian defence minister Ian McLachlan has made a timely plea for genuine bipartisanship in defence planning to provide advice based on experience and to ensure continuity across successive governments.
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Submarines mean security
Blake Herzinger | March 14, 2023Foreign charges that Canberra’s SSN program might promote conflict with Beijing or start a nuclear arms race should be dismissed as the self-serving propaganda of aggressor states.
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AUKUS submarines strengthen Australian sovereignty
Alex Bristow | March 14, 2023In a world becoming ever more interconnected, national security rests on an interpretation of sovereignty that embraces international partnerships, with trusted and reliable partners, especially the US alliance.
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Don’t go easy on espionage
Gillian Savage | February 24, 2023Australian businessmen and academics may urge decision makers to turn a blind eye to Chinese espionage and interference to protect their own interests, but Australia must robustly defend itself and democracy.
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Australian sea power
David Shackleton | February 18, 2023Bulking up the number of missile cells on new Australian ships will help our Navy deliver the firepower required to take on peer combatants on the world’s oceans.
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Upgrading Australia’s defence production to industry 4.0
Gillian Savage | February 12, 2023Australia has to radically rethink what various parts of Defence do and how to optimise the many opportunities presented by Industry 4.0 techniques.
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Post war lessons for a prewar world
Richard Dunley | February 3, 2023The current defence capability review being undertaken by Stephen Smith and Angus Houston could be informed by a similar exercise at the end of World War Two.
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Talking about the sixth generation
Malcolm Davis | January 13, 2023Adopting the next generation of air combat systems will help Australia protect itself from China and other potential aggressors in the future.
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The scrap iron flotilla
Stephen Loosley | November 27, 2022A new book recalls the exploits of five ageing Australian destroyers – Stewart, Waterhen, Vendetta, Voyager and Vampire – in the Mediterranean during World War Two.
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Impactful projection
Marcus Hellyer | November 21, 2022Larger stocks of long-range weapons will be needed to ensure Australia can deter aggressors in the future.
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War by other means
Lesley Seebeck | October 16, 2022The ‘grey-zone’ wars waged by Russia and China against the world call for a fundamental re-evaluation of the strategic logic that underpins power, the posture of nations and how they interact.