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It is important to restore public trust in any future decision for Australia to go to war. For this, a system that provides better democratic accountability is essential.
Military institutions and militarised cultures seek to generate a unity of people and purpose. Initiation rituals have been a historically stable strategy to achieve this.
The US and the UK realise the urgent need for serious investment in cybersecurity. So why is the Australian government taking the issue so lightly?
On reform, the 2016-17 budget is a holding one, with tinkering on the sides.
Australia’s new submarine fleet will be designed for a range of different missions in our challenging maritime environment.
Submarines possess a number of unique capabilities that make them ideal to protect Australia’s interests.
Industry and research spillovers could generate a benefit well in advance of the net cost of the submarine project.
There were significant differences between the three submarines on offer in the competitive evaluation process. Here’s what made the French sub stand out.
The stakes around Australia’s defence appear higher and the urgency greater than at any time since the height of the Cold War.
The principal consequence of Australia’s inevitable but little-debated decision to acquire submarines is to contribute to a rapidly escalating regional arms race.
For anyone who has been following Malcolm Turnbull’s progress as prime minister, his much-anticipated speech to the Lowy Institute contained few real surprises, other that the fact that it was inevitably…
One of Oscar Wilde’s more memorable and inspiring aphorisms claimed that a map of the world without utopia on it is not worth looking at. While many might agree with the sentiment, the theory – let alone…
Researchers face stiff fines or even jail time if they inadvertently communicate with foreign colleagues about matters deemed to have a military use.
Australia’s security bears no relation to whether we meet the target of raising defence spending to 2% of GDP.
To say the defence white paper was “much anticipated” would be an understatement. Was it worth the wait in the end? That rather depends on who you are and what your assessment of the risks Australia faces…
The defence white paper is silent on where Australia’s new fleet of 12 submarines will be acquired.
The coming defence white paper presents an opening for the Turnbull government to place its stamp on national security priorities and to align planning and policy settings with its strategic vision.
Does New Zealand have a more realistic view of its strategic environment than Australia? Given that many hard-headed Australian strategists think that New Zealand freeloads on Australia’s security efforts…
Budgets were decimated in 2010, but the latest Strategic Defence and Security Review seeks to make amends.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Security and International Relations, Royal Danish Defence College
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Strategy and Australian Defence Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Director, Foreign Policy and Defence, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor, Director, Open Door: Improving the Wellbeing of Veterans, Public Safety Personnel and their Families, Flinders University
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Professor of International Security, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Professor, Defence and Security Institute, The University of Western Australia; UNSW
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Visiting Fellow, Strategic Studies, Griffith University
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Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
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Professor of War and Technology, University of Bath
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Professor of Operations Research, Brock University