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ASPI's analysis and commentary site. For China watchers, there’s a grim irony contained in the 14 principles that former senior official Peter Varghese recommends in his long-awaited review into national security think tanks, released last week.
Editors' picks for 2024: 'Faster, cheaper ways to expand Australia’s ...
Originally published on 22 March 2024. Following the release of the Australia’s Surface Fleet Review, a big problem remains: the Australian Defence Force lacks sufficient maritime firepower to credibly implement deterrence-by-denial in the next 10 years.
Small, agile, deadly: the US Marine Corps and future war
Dec 19, 2024 · The US Marine Corps is dramatically increasing its relevance to the war fighting capability of the United States. As the world lurches into an age of renewed strategic competition, the Marine Corps understands that it must be at the …
Collaborative planning for Australian food security preparedness
Australia’s food security, commonly assumed safe thanks to our being a net food exporter, is increasingly vulnerable in a world marked by geopolitical and environmental instability. Our reliance on critical imports in food production and ...
How to fill gaps in AUKUS communication efforts | The Strategist
Gaps in AUKUS communication strategies limit public understanding of its benefits and allow malign actors, such as China and Russia, to sway public opinion.. A roundtable held by ASPI’s Washington office on 3 December served as a forum to address these gaps. It involved experts from academia, government and think tanks, and was the first in a series of roundtables aiming to improve AUKUS ...
Adapting all-domain forces to changes in land warfare
Many elements of 21st-century warfare echo those of the 20th century. The nature of war as a brutal and fundamentally human endeavour has endured despite the introduction of stealth aircraft, precision missiles, drones, satellites and cyber capabilities to contemporary battlefields.
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Next steps for the Ghost Bat - The Strategist
Feb 12, 2024 · The future of air combat is about teaming between crewed platforms and autonomous systems rather than relying purely on exquisite stand-alone and extremely expensive crewed platforms. With that mind, the development of the MQ-28A Ghost ...
Australia needs to make 155mm shells with 100 percent local …
Plans for making 155mm artillery shells in Australia are inadequate. They’ll leave us still relying on imports for some parts, and production capacity for those parts that are made locally would not meet Australian Army demand in a major conflict.
Information, facts, journalism and security | The Strategist
Nov 18, 2024 · (A speech by the executive director of ASPI to the Media Freedom Summit, hosted by the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom in Sydney on 14 November.) I want to start by citing the Guardian’s latest ...