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WEBThe Strategist is a website that publishes articles on defence, security and foreign policy issues from the perspective of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). It covers topics such as US dollar, UN reform, drones, Taiwan, …
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WEBThe Strategist is the online platform of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), a think tank that provides fresh ideas on defence and strategic policy issues. The site features articles by experts and commentators on Australia's role in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.
ASPI podcast Archives - The Strategist Archive
WEBListen to ASPI podcast episodes on various topics related to policy, guns and money, such as AI, cyber, geopolitics, defence and more. The Strategist Archive features interviews with experts and analysts from Australia and around the world.
Fuel under fire: insights from the 2024 Defence Fuel Symposium
WEBThe 2024 Defence Fuel Symposium, held in early September in Canberra, highlighted the urgent need for a strategic overhaul of Australia’s fuel security in response to increasing global instability. The rules-based international order that has helped maintain stability in the Indo-Pacific for ...
A sovereign Australian AI drive needs sovereign data centres
WEBSep 9, 2024 · Australia needs to build its own domestic AI capability. To do so, it must first develop and build more of its own data centres across the country. AI is the technology of both today and tomorrow. We’ll fall behind the world if we don’t make the most of it. There is a push from CSIRO, pockets of ...
From the Bookshelf: ‘Australian Defence and Deterrence: A 2024 …
WEBAug 1, 2024 · In Australia’s Defence and Deterrence, long-time analyst of global defence issues and frequent commentator on Australian defence Robbin Laird has written another timely book.He provides a constructively critical and expansive update on the Australian Defence Force. He does so by asking important questions and drawing on presentations delivered at the April 2024 Sir Richard Williams ...
The US presidential debate: ASPI responds | The Strategist
WEBSep 11, 2024 · The debate was heavily focused on US domestic matters—even when questions were on international affairs, both candidates sought to bring the issues back to domestic politics and policies. Of most relevance to Australia was the lack of interest in this region. Other than passing references—in ...
The US election will overturn Europe’s strategic status quo
WEBWith the US election just two months away, European decision-makers have gone from grappling with Trumpian nightmare scenarios—new trade wars, abandoning Ukraine and withdrawing from NATO—to experiencing an emotion they had almost forgotten: hope. Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascent to the ...
The strategic logic of Home Affairs | The Strategist
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Michael Pezzullo was secretary of the Department of Home Affairs from 2017 to 2023 and deputy chief of staff to then Opposition Leader Kim Beazley in 2001.. Main photo is stock image by iosebi meladze/Getty Images. Second image is John Barker’s oil painting of the Battle of Marston Moor during the English Civil War in 1644.
Next steps for the Ghost Bat - The Strategist
WEBFeb 12, 2024 · The MQ-28A Ghost Bat is a UAV developed by Boeing Australia and the RAAF for teaming with crewed platforms in next generation air combat. The project aims to reduce cost, risk and dependency on exquisite stand-alone aircraft, and to collaborate with the US and other nations.