Swap Pacific policy on the run with these three steps
Australia’s governments must stop handing unworkable thought bubbles to the public service and accept we have a huge role to play in this region.
Peter Jennings
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We must – and can – do more for Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has entered a new phase. If Australia is to be taken seriously as a global power, it’s time to step up our involvement.
All is not lost: how we can win the Solomons over
The Solomons can be persuaded to shelve the China deal. It will take a focused effort on our part and more money than we’d like to spend.
Mid-2020s pose our gravest risk since WWII
Defence is fixated on building the perfect force structure for the 2030s rather than focusing on the urgent boost we need for our northern security.
Not too late, but we must reach out to Honiara now
Australia cannot afford a Chinese military base in the Solomon Islands. But if we want to stop it, we’re going to have to lift our game there.
Urgent need for radical thinking on our defence
There are three things we can do immediately to improve the ADF’s capability to handle the scale and speed of current threats.
The known unknowns of Putin’s bloody gamble
For Joe Biden, the lesson is that global security is not an elegant Ivy league politics seminar, it’s a knife fight in the dark.
World has changed, our defence planning must too
Blueprints for undergunned surface ships, heavy armoured vehicles and manned combat aircraft are looking dangerously outmoded.
There is still a slim chance to stop war with Russia
It didn’t have to be this way. Since the invasion of Crimea in 2014 and the bloody proxy war waged since then there’s been no doubt of Putin’s aggressive intent.
New strength in our much-maligned historic ties
As the likelihood of conflict grows, so too does the importance of our British links.
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