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The cost of Defence: ASPI Defence Budget Brief 2025-2026

Building national preparedness: A road map for Australia and what we should learn from Finland

Shifting the needle: Making Australia’s research security ecosystem work smarter

Since 2018, the Australian Government has made serious strides in countering espionage and foreign interference, including introducing policy and legislative reforms aimed at protecting the research and university sector. That was necessary. Foreign states have actively targeted Australia’s research ecosystem—seeking to influence research agendas, extract sensitive information and exploit institutional vulnerabilities. However, the threat landscape […]

North of 26 degrees south and the security of Australia: views from The Strategist, Volume 11

The Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre’s latest report, North of 26 degrees south and the security of Australia: views from The Strategist, Volume 11, contains articles published in ASPI’s The Strategist over the last six months. Expanding on previous volumes, this edition introduces thematic chapters focused on a range of subjects relevant to northern Australia. […]

What Australia should do in the South China Sea

China continues to try changing the status quo in the South…

Rebuilding while performing: military modernisation in the Philippines

The Government of the Republic of the Philippines is presently…

China’s peaceful rise into pieces

China has gone from peaceful rise to rising by pieces, as it…

China’s ramming policy in the South China Sea

China has shifted from salami slicing to ramming in the South…

ASPI suggests: Asia Pacific edition

Welcome back for another instalment of ASPI suggests from Washington…

Obama after West Point

President Obama’s explanation of his foreign policy has come…

Asian security doctrines (2): the biggest question

The biggest question facing Asia is becoming even starker because…

Hard power: little power, hard to use

Peter Jennings picks up a theme that has been working its way…

F-35B JSF for the ADF—a viable option in the 2015 White Paper? (Part 2)

In my last post, I considered the operational and technical challenges…

A fraying Asian security order?

The Asian security architecture has long been defined by two…

Domestic politics as a game-changer in Asia

Rod Lyon recently argued that an interesting feature of geostrategic…

Cyber wrap

The big cyber news out of the US this week was the Obama Administration’s…

What Australia should do in the South China Sea

China continues to try changing the status quo in the South…

Rebuilding while performing: military modernisation in the Philippines

The Government of the Republic of the Philippines is presently…

China’s peaceful rise into pieces

China has gone from peaceful rise to rising by pieces, as it…

China’s ramming policy in the South China Sea

China has shifted from salami slicing to ramming in the South…

ASPI suggests: Asia Pacific edition

Welcome back for another instalment of ASPI suggests from Washington…

Obama after West Point

President Obama’s explanation of his foreign policy has come…

Asian security doctrines (2): the biggest question

The biggest question facing Asia is becoming even starker because…

Hard power: little power, hard to use

Peter Jennings picks up a theme that has been working its way…

F-35B JSF for the ADF—a viable option in the 2015 White Paper? (Part 2)

In my last post, I considered the operational and technical challenges…

A fraying Asian security order?

The Asian security architecture has long been defined by two…

Domestic politics as a game-changer in Asia

Rod Lyon recently argued that an interesting feature of geostrategic…

Cyber wrap

The big cyber news out of the US this week was the Obama Administration’s…