The Iranian drones and missiles that struck airports in Dubai, Doha, and across the Gulf in the opening days of Iran’s retaliation against American and Israeli strikes were notable for hitting the ...

US-led military operations against Iran – which began with a decapitation strike that killed the regime’s most senior leadership figures including Ayatollah Khamenei – will have far-reaching ...

Australian membership in ASEAN is currently not possible. Australia’s dialogue partner relationship with ASEAN supports Australian policy autonomy and Australia’s engagement with Southeast Asia. The ...

It’s tempting to assume that Donald Trump is the world’s biggest foreign policy problem. But in Australia’s case, that would be as incomplete as it is dangerous. After a week of consultations with ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a remarkable address to the Munich Security Conference on 14 February, a speech that offered a vision of renewed Western civilisational expansion. “For five ...

Defence was long the laggard among Western European budgets. By the early 2010s, the “peace dividend” of the post–Cold War era had coupled with crushing austerity policies to take an especially heavy ...

The PLA Navy’s unprecedented live-fire exercise 640 kilometres off the south coast of New South Wales, quickly followed by a second such exercise closer to New Zealand, was… ...

Danish King Frederik’s upcoming trip to Greenland will send dual messages: a morale boost to locals and a show of unity aimed squarely at the White House. When Danish King Frederik touches down in ...

In December 2025, Meta acquired Manus, a Chinese AI firm, for US$2 billion. It was one of the first major acquisitions of a Chinese artificial intelligence company by an American tech giant. Such ...

In his oft-cited address at this year’s Davos confab, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned of nothing less than “a rupture in the world order”, where even the “pleasant fiction” of a rules-based ...

In October 2025, Taiwanese President William Lai proposed the establishment of a special defence budget, emphasising that the country’s future defence posture will prioritise innovation and advanced ...

John Edwards is a Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute and an Adjunct Professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. He is also a board member of the industry ...