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A generic photo of ADF soldier (main) and Melbourne-based academic Samantha Crompvoets (inset).

Whoever wins the election, stop the rot in Defence. We’re in peril as never before

Australia confronts the greatest ever threats to its security, yet our bloated defence aristocracy is intellectually stunted. We need urgent action – and that includes a debate on the introduction of national service.

  • Mick Ryan

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White House national security adviser Mike Waltz listens to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on March 7.

‘Should I fire him?’ Inside Trump’s deliberations after Signal debacle

For much of this past week, the US president was consumed by a single question. What should he do about national security adviser Michael Waltz?

  • Maggie Haberman and Tyler Pager
US Vice President J.D. Vance speaks at the US military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Friday.

Vance attacks Denmark in ‘aggressive’ visit to Greenland

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US should take over Greenland and has not ruled out the possibility of using military force to do so.

  • Benedict Smith
White House national security adviser Mike Waltz, left, speaks with US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth last month. Waltz added the journalist to the group chat, Hegseth divulged highly sensitive military details.

‘They screwed up’: Intel community aghast at Trump team’s security breach

For US allies, including Australia, the Signal chat scandal is another reminder that this administration cares little for established norms and protocols.

  • Michael Koziol
JD Vance and Hegseth texts

The Signal chat decoded: What Hegseth and Waltz revealed in airstrike text messages

Details of a planned US airstrike in Yemen mistakenly shared with a journalist on the messaging app Signal were almost certainly classified information, military experts say.

‘The first bombs will definitely drop’: Full text of US military group chat scandal revealed

The Atlantic released the operational details sent by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to the breached Signal group after the Trump administration insisted the information wasn’t classified.

  • Michael Koziol
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US President Donald Trump on Monday.

It’s jaw-dropping gall from team Trump, who just can’t admit a mistake

The Trump administration’s attempt to manage the Signal group chat scandal has run the full gamut of downplay, disparage and deny – but not convincingly.

  • Michael Koziol
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe were both in the Signal group chat.

Harmless ‘glitch’: Trump brushes off inclusion of journalist to military group chat

Two top national security leaders who were members of the highly sensitive Signal group chat discussing airstrikes in Yemen fronted a Senate hearing, denying that classified information had been shared.

  • Michael Koziol
The US launched the strikes on March 15.

Clinton’s seven-word reaction to military group chat scandal as Trump backs officials

Washington is in shock after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic revealed he had been accidentally included in highly sensitive Signal messages about planned strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.

  • Michael Koziol

Five Eyes wide shut: Now is the wrong time to pause in shaping Australia’s intelligence agencies

The government commissioned a review into our intelligence services. Why haven’t we seen the results?

  • Rory Medcalf

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