Analysis

After 60 years, are we finally grasping the implications of the ‘Lucky Country’ malaise?

January 02 2025

Six decades after Donald Horne released his reflective tome, The Lucky Country, a growing number of people are beginning to recognise that our nation&...

Top 5 for 2024: Defence Connect’s best geopolitics and policy stories

The year 2024 was big for Australia’s Defence and national security debate and defence industry. In this top five, we will cover the most popular geopolitics and policy...

December 31 2024

Top 5 for 2024: Defence Connect’s best air stories

The year 2024 was big for Australia’s Defence and national security debate and defence industry. In this top five, we will cover the most popular air domain stories of...

December 30 2024

Top 5 for 2024: Defence Connect’s best land stories

The year 2024 was big for Australia’s Defence and national security debate and defence industry. In this top five, we will cover the most popular land domain stories of...

December 27 2024

Top 5 for 2024: Defence Connect’s best naval stories

The year 2024 was big for Australia’s Defence and national security debate and defence industry. In this top five, we will cover the most popular naval stories of the...

December 24 2024

Top 5 for 2024: Defence Connect’s best insight stories

The year 2024 was big for Australia’s Defence and national security debate and defence industry. In this top five, we will cover the most popular insight stories of the...

December 23 2024

Trump’s views on cryptocurrency may have unintended consequences for Putin’s Russia

A Trump White House looks set to massively deregulate cryptocurrency and make cryptocurrency mining great again as Russia looks to its own cryptocurrency ambitions.

December 20 2024

Crystal ball gazing: Looking ahead to 2025 and beyond

As we close in on a new year, we also mark the midway point of the 2020s with a region and a world characterised by growing instability, multipolarity and great power...

December 18 2024

It won’t come cheap: What is the true cost of defending Australia?

Nobody has ever said that defending Australia will come cheap. Following a big year for defence budgeting and the national accounts in particular, this has come to the fore,...

December 17 2024

Service guarantees? National security expert calls for reimagined national service concept

It is one of the most contentious areas of contemporary public policy – national service. But now, as our region becomes more unstable, unpredictable and volatile with...

December 16 2024

Interview: The scale and ongoing threat of Chinese cyber espionage, with BlackBerry’s David Wiseman

Exclusive: The scale and ongoing threat of Chinese cyber espionage, with BlackBerry’s David Wiseman

BlackBerry’s VP of Secure Communications unpacks current Chinese telecommunications espionage campaigns, and what China’s next level of grey zone escalation may...

December 13 2024

Bushmaster in review: Ukrainian troops credit effective Australian armour

Ukrainian troops have given some insights and battle experiences associated with Australian-donated Bushmaster protected mobility vehicles in their fight against Russian...

December 12 2024

Better the devil you know? Post-civil war Syria raises serious questions

In a stunning turn of events, infamous Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown by a loose coalition of rebel groups backed by various regional and global powers,...

December 11 2024

Economic outlook finally identifies long-standing structural issues but glosses over national security impacts

Australia’s prolonged economic slump highlights deep-rooted structural flaws worsened by poor policy making. Yet, we’ve largely overlooked the pressing national...

December 10 2024

18 ways to leave your lover: A big tech view of the Pentagon

Opinion: Long captured by a select group of the “in group”, the Western world’s defence and national security ecosystem has seen a costly consolidation of...

December 09 2024

Ukraine’s cyber defenders turn years of conflict into useful lessons for all

TRYZUB is a new training platform based on real-world, front-line cyber warfare experiences – here’s how it works and why it could matter for Australia.

December 06 2024

K-Rudd fiasco: Winners and losers after the Australian ambassador smear campaign

The new US administration hasn’t even taken office yet but Australia is visibly rushing to cripple its own diplomatic leadership in Washington. Who are the possible...

December 05 2024

Assessing our opportunities and threats as part of a national SWOT analysis

By leveraging a formal SWOT analysis and identifying Australia’s national strengths and corresponding weaknesses, we are better able to fully account for the...

December 04 2024

Conducting a national SWOT analysis to better respond to a future of disruption, contest and conflict

As our regional and global environment grows increasingly disrupted, contested, and shaped by actual or potential conflict, it is imperative that our leaders conduct a...

December 03 2024

US DOD reveals first-ever vision statement for south-east Asia

Continued exercises, training, capacity building, and mitigation of climate change are key planks in the United States’ relationship with ASEAN nations – but will...

December 02 2024

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