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If there is one thing that the new administration of Malcolm Turnbull can be confident about, it’s that dealing with China is not going to get any easier. Despite our new prime minister taking a decidedly…
If construction of its submarines in Australia proceeds, it will be Japan’s first postwar export of a major combat weapons system.
A new study has found returned service people who underwent mindfulness-based therapies had a sharper short-term decline in PTSD symptoms than those undergoing other conventional therapies.
PM wants more unmanned intervention but he should be wary of putting all his eggs in one basket.
Instant reaction from academics as George Osborne delivers his post-election budget.
From the UK, to Canada, Australia and the states – our opinions about the military are usually wrong.
With austerity on the agenda, the upcoming strategic reviews will be critical to deciding the future of the UK’s defence force.
Conservative targets for 1% annual savings in the next two years will actually feel like more than 5% for a swathe of government departments.
Ultimately, the argument for Australia to acquire ballistic missile defence does not stack up.
The government’s Defence Trade Controls Act effectively makes teaching encryption a criminal act and considers even a simple calculator as a potential weapon.
New research shows the UK’s military heft depends on a thriving domestic industry to buy things from – and we may be about to cut it drastically.
UKIP’s whole manifesto rests on the premise that the UK will leave the EU.
Plaid Cymru’s Leanne Wood has questioned whether the UK should spent 6% of its budget on defence. Has she got her numbers right?
The Conservatives can’t quite figure out how to both cut defence spending and procure new kit the UK can actually use.
Overseas aid plays a huge role in defence, which makes cutting it a dangerous mistake.
On defence, the Labour manifesto is full of fine words, but lacking in substance.
Nicola Sturgeon has set out her Scottish National Party’s opposition to renewing Britain’s nuclear deterrent. Will it cost that much?
The head of the US army isn’t keen for a key ally to opt out of its commitments.
Days after announcing Australia’s largest ever defence contract will be awarded via a “competitive evaluation process”, the government is still scrambling for a sensible definition of what such a process…
The world’s largest non-nuclear bomb, and easily the most powerful “earthquake bomb” ever built, has now been tested and can be delivered by the B-2 stealth bomber. While the Massive Ordnance Penetrator…



















