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Blog: The Strategist
A Chinese J-10 fighter intercepted an Australian MH-60R Seahawk helicopter from the destroyer HMAS Hobart over the Yellow Sea on 4 May, dropping flares in its path and endangering the helicopter and its crew, Australia's ...
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The strategic potential of Submarine Rotational Force-West, the AUKUS initiative that commits the United States and United Kingdom to forward-deploy a small flotilla of nuclear-powered attack submarines to HMAS Stirling, near Fremantle, isn't adequately appreciated. ...
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Australia and Britain have concluded a new treaty-level Defence and Security Cooperation Agreement (DSCA). To what extent does this move the dial of their close defence relationship towards a formal alliance? This question matters because ...
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Following last week's by-all-accounts successful Australia-ASEAN summit in Melbourne, I offered some unsolicited advice for an ASEAN audience, on the differences between non-alignment and neutrality. In the same presumptuous vein, my recommendation to Australian readers ...
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As this week's 50th anniversary ASEAN-Australia summit wraps up in Melbourne, I would like to offer one simple piece of policy advice to each party to help them strengthen their relations in future from a ...
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Defence cooperation between Australia and Japan has yet to find its top gear but, after a cautious start, that relationship is in pole position among Australia's regional security partnerships. The road ahead may soon lead ...
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Released 10 months after the defence strategic review (DSR), the annexed and long-awaited review of the Royal Australian Navy's surface combatant fleet has finally brought some much-needed clarity on the RAN's ambitions to expand and ...
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This week's unveiling of the expansionary blueprint for Australia's future naval surface fleet brings with it a golden opportunity to revive defence cooperation between Australia and its occasionally ambivalent ally, New Zealand. Specifically, the announcement ...
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Originally published on 24 August 2023. Paul Dibb's Strategist post, in response to Sam Roggeveen's recent Australian Foreign Affairs article, was on target. But I must quibble specifically with his assertion that no commentator in ...
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As 2023 draws to a close, how should we assess progress on the government's stated objective of 'stabilisation' in Australia–China relations? On the face of it, the Australian government has built significant momentum this year ...
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Houthi forces based in Yemen are engaged in what resembles an unhinged, turbocharged form of piracy in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, where disruption and destruction have supplanted the traditional motivation of material ...
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I recently visited Finland, for the first time, to attend the Helsinki Security Forum, organised by the Finnish Institute for International Affairs, on the theme 'Deter, defend and secure—Europe in the era of radical uncertainty'. ...
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As Indonesia prepared to play host this week to the various annual ASEAN-centred summits, culminating in the 18th East Asia Summit, President Joko Widodo warned, in terms familiar to ASEAN watchers, against the risk of ...
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Many tea leaves have been read on the implications of the ground-breaking Japan–South Korea–United States summit, held at Camp David earlier this month (for example, here, here and here). The first stand-alone meeting of the ...
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Paul Dibb's Strategist post, in response to Sam Roggeveen's recent Australian Foreign Affairs article, was on target. But I must quibble specifically with his assertion that no commentator in their right mind would recommend a ...