The past may be a different country, but has well trodden paths and byways. In 1938 politically peripatetic Winston Churchill seemed a lone voice against British PM Neville Chamberlain’s attempted appeasement with Hitler. Churchill warned against the Axis powers who...
The Defence Strategic Review went a long way to articulating the long-term objectives and capability priorities of the Australian Defence Force in the era of great power competition, but in light of recent developments and the rapidly shifting sands, do we need to...
It looks increasingly likely we’ll get nothing of consequence out of the whole Defence Strategic Review. This is not only dismal and not only the doing of this government. It shames our whole nation. - Greg Sheridan It is almost time to pronounce February’s Defence...
Opinion: A failure to resource the DSR changes adequately could mean that our deployable military operational capability will in reality be less at the end of this decade than it is today, writes Air Vice-Marshal (Ret'd) John Blackburn AO, former Deputy Chief of the...
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has revealed the biggest threat facing Australia over the next decade in the face of the largest military build-up the “world has seen” since World War Two. Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has said Australia’s major investment...
A former chief of the defence force and a former defence minister are set to lead the largest review of the Australian military in over three decades. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles have...