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Australia will soon host a US SSN force. We need to discuss war planning
20+ hour, 53+ min ago (1047+ words) From 2027, Australia will host under the AUKUS agreement a US submarine force at HMAS Stirling, near Perth. It will be known as Submarine Rotational Force–West (SRF–W) and will consist of up to four US attack submarines. For Australia,…...
The war in Ukraine has dramatically changed special forces operations
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (729+ words) Throughout the Russia–Ukraine war, special operations forces (SOF, or SSO in Ukrainian) have conducted many raids and missions to probe enemy defensive positions. Examples include Ukraine’s use of SOF probing operations in Bryansk and Kursk in 2023 and 2024 before launching…...
Australia is flying blind on Chinese drone data
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (397+ words) Australian foreign minister Penny Wong didn’t just pledge valuable surveillance drones to the Philippines this week; she pledged technology made in Australia and the United States, not in China. This means a decision was made to ensure the most trusted…...
Autonomous, sovereign, ready: what Australia's defence moment demands
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (395+ words) This means that Australia’s threat environment, from the ocean floor to the skies, is outpacing its ability to respond to it. The answer lies in developing and making our own autonomous systems. The question is whether we can field them…...
Send the data centres north
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (186+ words) Northern Australia, with its energy resources, land, proximity to Indo-Pacific markets and rising strategic weight, is where a meaningful share of it should be located. What Australia lacks is a national siting strategy to make that happen. Australia is a…...
Japan and Australia are critical partners in the Pacific
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (918+ words) Just hours after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Fiji on 6 July to agree enhance cooperation with the island state, Beijing fired a ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean. Australia swiftly deplored the ‘provocative act’, and leaders of Solomon Islands…...
Australia stands behind Philippines amid China’s aggression
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (417+ words) That strategy is aimed at deterring China where we can while making the region more resilient where we must, given the inevitability of Beijing continuing to be aggressive. As is its wont, Beijing tried intimidation before Manila hosted one of…...
Australia throws itself behind Philippines amid China’s aggression
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (417+ words) That strategy is aimed at deterring China where we can while making the region more resilient where we must, given the inevitability of Beijing continuing to be aggressive. As is its wont, Beijing tried intimidation before Manila hosted one of…...
Some Chinese AI will go closed-source, but not all
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (200+ words) A debate is raging among close observers of Chinese AI: will it stay open-source, or will it close off? The most likely answer is that there’ll be a bit of both. President Xi Jinping seemed to answer the question last…...
Obvious but not easy: uncrewed systems should surveil Indonesia’s seas
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (147+ words) Closing the surveillance gap is a problem of persistence, endurance and coverage, not platform numbers alone. The maritime surveillance environment around Indonesia is changing. The contest below the surface is no longer hypothetical, and the gap admitted by the navy…...