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Chamberlain won the Battle of Britain — and saved Australia too?

What premium is Australia paying today, and for a capability that arrives – if it arrives – in ...  
The next war is about compute — and Australia isn’t ready

Relying on global cloud providers and having no national strategy, what could possibly go wrong ...  
We trade with Asia yet our strategic priorities do not reflect it

Australia’s economic reality is anchored in Asia, but its strategic imagination is not keeping ...  
Poise without pedigree: Why Australia needs Nancy Mitford at the Strait of Malacca

It may be worth remembering in troubled geopolitical times that older societies knew how to ...  
From Taipei to Tokyo: U.S. retreat redraws Indo-Pacific alliances

As U.S. attention drifts from the Indo-Pacific, Taiwan and its regional partners are recalibrating ...  
Australia didn't vote for this war, but it's fighting it anyway

Australia is entangled in a war it never voted for, with silence masking how deeply its alliances ...  
Anzac Day: Remembrance writ large in communities big and small

They came from communities big and small, they fought and died, remembered now by inscriptions ...  
Drone wars: How Ukraine rewrote the future of combat

There is a quiet revolution unfolding over the battlefields of Ukraine — and it doesn’t roar ...  
Waning world order: Ethics in the age of great power politics

A structured, ethical approach to de-escalation of the U.S.-Israel-Iran War with a pathway toward ...  
Donald Trump and the Iran War path to madness

On Easter Sunday, Trump warned that a 'whole civilisation will die tonight' if Iran refused h ...  
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EDITORIAL: Trump Land and the Iran War path to madness

On Easter Sunday, Trump warned that a 'whole civilisation will die tonight'  if Iran refused h ...  
When allies threaten war crimes, silence is self-destruction

If Trump bombs Iran's civilian infrastructure, Britain and Australia must respond — not out of p ...  
Rules-based order collapse: Australia's chance for independence

Despite its obvious collapse, Australia continues to cling to the hope of a U.S.-led rules-based ...  
American war strategy and the need for independence

America's increasingly flaky military strategy under successive regimes stresses the importance ...  
Iran War has exposed Australia’s vulnerabilities and misplaced priorities

Successive Australian governments’ misplaced priority on military “security” against a ...  
What UK Labour's downfall means for Australia

The lesson from London is not that Albanese is Starmer. It is that a large mandate without a clear ...  
Armed with AI: Epicflow’s new Portfolio Optimiser enters trials with the Dutch

As geopolitical pressure intensifies across Europe, defence organisations are under growing ...  
That’s feta! Europe signs up on trade deal while pushing for security

European Commission President Ursula von der Layen seemed more concerned with security and alli ...  
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