As the Defence Department prepares to spend $10–15 billion ­buying the modern equivalent of the armoured knight, in the shape of 450 infantry fighting ­vehicles, it risks committing the army’s future to a capability with …

Good policymaking, including strategic policymaking, requires a number of steps.  There has to be an objective reason why the government should or shouldn’t act.  The options then need to be identified and assessed for efficacy, …

Much of the argument for building warships and submarines in Australia ultimately rests on the rather dubious logic that we’re on an island surrounded by water.  But Australia is also surrounded by air, yet nobody …

What is left of NATO and the transatlantic order after US President Donald Trump’s tumultuous week in Brussels, the United Kingdom and Helsinki, where he defended Russian President Vladimir Putin against accusations of cyber warfare …

With President Donald Trump having returned from his dumpster-fire-lighting tour of Europe, the media firestorm unleashed by his claims last week that the European members of NATO were not meeting their defence spending obligations, and …