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The Strategist23mOpinion
For long-term AI ambitions, Australia should think nuclear
Australia’s two major parties are divided over nuclear energy and the future mix of the nation’s power sources. But they are ...
The Strategist3hOpinion
Australian critical minerals reserve would put country on the right track
Australia’s future prosperity will not be built on nostalgia for past booms. It’ll be forged in the critical supply chains of ...
The Strategist5hOpinion
Better defence demands a better veteran affairs strategy
Australia needs to develop a new veteran affairs strategy. Failure to do so will worsen the Australian Defence Force’s ...
The Strategist22hOpinion
Australia’s quiet counterterrorism wins are being missed. That’s a problem
Victorian Supreme Court Justice James Elliot ruled that Abdul Nacer Benbrika—Australia’s most notorious terrorist and the ...
The Strategist1d
Preparedness and resilience in an uncertain world
In the week of Australia’s 3 May election, ASPI released Agenda for Change 2025: preparedness and resilience in an uncertain ...
The Strategist1d
What else we could do with the money: AUKUS Plan Bs from a CSBA exercise
Sceptics of AUKUS Pillar 1, the nuclear-submarine element of the Australian-UK-US defence technology partnership, have called ...
The Strategist1d
The five-domains update
Sea state An Australian contingent participated in Exercise Bersama Shield on 17-22 April, joining with forces from Britain, ...
The Strategist1d
Not so risky after all: bilateral consequences of compromised intelligence operations
It’s a staple of screenwriters and novelists, stock news footage and a spectre haunting ambassadors’ dreams: a spy unmasked; ...
The Strategist1d
No Russia in Papua: Indonesia’s quiet diplomacy speaks loudly
Indonesia’s low-key rejection of reported Russian interest in military basing in Papua says more than it appears to. While ...
The Strategist2d
Ukraine’s air force has survived. Taiwan’s almost certainly couldn’t
The Ukrainian air force went to war against invading Russian forces in February 2022 with just 125 combat aircraft ...
The Strategist2dOpinion
Australia (still) needs a dedicated and public-facing national security adviser
In the week of Australia’s 3 May election, ASPI released Agenda for Change 2025: preparedness and resilience in an uncertain ...
The Strategist2d
Vietnamese reunification 50 years later: ‘let bygones be bygones’
On 27 January 1973, the conflict in Vietnam was brought to an end with the formal signing in Paris of the Agreement on Ending ...