Twenty-five years on: what Australia gave Afghanistan, and what it still owes On 14 September 2001, Prime Minister John ...

We now know that Chinese AI agents are inclined to cheat just as US models are. The big difference is that if one causes a ...

A new combination of surveillance, drones and precision strike is eroding the old assumption that navies could generate sea control through superior ships, vessels, aircraft and operational skills ...

With a clutch of new long-range air-to-air missiles (LRAAMs) with ranges of 300 km or more, US forces could dramatically shift the aerial balance of power over the Western Pacific. Travelling at least ...

Australia has developed a growing class of self-declared geopolitical analysts and independent researchers who built their reputations not through research, experience or sustained analytical work but ...

Bogged down militarily in Ukraine, with Russia’s economy in a shambles and Ukrainian drones penetrating ever deeper into the ...

Pacific’s next deterrence problem may be a shortage not of military capability but of coordination. As Australia, Japan and ...

The Department of Home Affairs has made an important start. In response to an OpenAI agent reaching non-public files on a ...

Australia needs a more active and hardheaded approach towards the Middle East to deal with ongoing conflicts stemming from or worsened by the attack against Israel three years ago today by Hamas and ...

If the army’s emerging littoral force is to become effective, the government must create an integrated northern logistics ...

Intelligence professionals carry an unrecognised ethical responsibility. It arises when they shape what political decision-makers come to know, which risks are held to be salient, and which options ...

AI-powered autonomous weapons, operating with little or no human supervision, offer speed, scale and lower costs, but they also raise hard questions about who stays in control. In this selection of ...