The economic and social costs of the war in Iran, particularly its effect on global food security and agricultural production ...

Tuesday’s meeting between the foreign and defence ministers of Australia and New Zealand was a nicely poised display of strategic alignment and statecraft. It balanced an ambitious plan to build an ...

Australia’s military drone pilots are internationally competitive, and the army is beginning to benefit from skills that service personnel are developing privately. Nonetheless, the Australian Defence ...

As China pursues greater heights in frontier technology, it is also reckoning with the persistent problems of domestic demand, debt and demographic change. This was clear in the documents released ...

The pressures facing regional universities are commonly attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic and the collapse of international student markets. But the financial and structural fragility now visible ...

India imported 53,748 metric tonnes of rare-earth permanent magnets in the year to March 2025, and its demand is projected to double by 2030. That’s the mine-to-magnet problem in one line: India wants ...

Strategic surprise rarely occurs because there is no warning. Signals accumulate, intelligence reporting circulates and analysts identify emerging risks. Strategic surprise occurs when institutions ...

China’s military budget increases keep painting a picture that’s inconsistent with the country’s claims to a defensive policy ...

China’s latest five-year plan enshrines artificial intelligence as a key driver of economic growth and technological ...

Replacing vulnerable but nationally critical information-technology systems takes too long. Australia should follow the ...

When Australia and Indonesia signed the Jakarta Treaty on Common Security in February, the central question was never whether it sounded historic. It did. The real question was whether it would matter ...

Coalition warfare has always been messy. Different procedures, systems, standards, doctrines, and operational caveats ...