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Australia and Japan are stewards of a wavering order
1+ hour, 3+ min ago (810+ words) The Strategist | ASPI's analysis and commentary site The Australia–Japan quasi-alliance is not a hedge against US unreliability, nor should it be seen in purely bilateral terms. Rather, it is emblematic of a broader pattern I call ‘stewarding’, in which…...
As Australia looks to partnership, Indonesian military builds internal role | The Strategist
19+ hour, 50+ min ago (251+ words) Indonesia’s defence policy is moving in two directions at once. Externally, it is pursuing procurement and modernisation while expanding defence diplomacy, training and international engagement. But domestically, its military focus is shaped by a broad understanding of security that encompasses…...
Legacy technology is a national security threat hiding in plain sight
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (223+ words) The problem with legacy technology is not that organisations do not know the risks. It is that no mechanism forces a decision. Ownership is distributed across operators, boards, procurement teams, regulators and ministers until responsibility effectively disappears and unsupported systems…...
Autonomous, sovereign, ready: what Australia's defence moment demands
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (395+ words) This means that Australia’s threat environment, from the ocean floor to the skies, is outpacing its ability to respond to it. The answer lies in developing and making our own autonomous systems. The question is whether we can field them…...
Japan and Australia are critical partners in the Pacific
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (918+ words) Just hours after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Fiji on 6 July to agree enhance cooperation with the island state, Beijing fired a ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean. Australia swiftly deplored the ‘provocative act’, and leaders of Solomon Islands…...
Australia stands behind Philippines amid China’s aggression
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (417+ words) That strategy is aimed at deterring China where we can while making the region more resilient where we must, given the inevitability of Beijing continuing to be aggressive. As is its wont, Beijing tried intimidation before Manila hosted one of…...
Australia throws itself behind Philippines amid China’s aggression
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (417+ words) That strategy is aimed at deterring China where we can while making the region more resilient where we must, given the inevitability of Beijing continuing to be aggressive. As is its wont, Beijing tried intimidation before Manila hosted one of…...
Obvious but not easy: uncrewed systems should surveil Indonesia’s seas
1+ week, 1+ day ago (147+ words) Closing the surveillance gap is a problem of persistence, endurance and coverage, not platform numbers alone. The maritime surveillance environment around Indonesia is changing. The contest below the surface is no longer hypothetical, and the gap admitted by the navy…...
A critique of middle power strategy shows why we need it
1+ week, 1+ day ago (561+ words) In his dismissal of middle power strategy on 15 June, US Under Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby may have made the strategy’s importance clearer. In a series of posts on X, Colby criticised the emergence of ‘middle power strategy’, dismissing it…...
Colby’s critique of middle power strategy shows why we need it
1+ week, 1+ day ago (547+ words) In his dismissal of middle power strategy on 15 June, US Under Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby may have made the strategy’s importance clearer. In a series of posts on X, Colby criticised the emergence of ‘middle power strategy’, dismissing it…...