By James Goldrick Recent reports in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age of shortfalls in the manning and funding of the Australian Border Force’s Cape-class patrol boats and earlier exchanges in Senate estimates...

By Alison Davidian The extraction and exploitation of oil and mineral deposits have become increasingly possible across Asia and the Pacific. Rapid industrialisation and technological developments have led to new large-scale mines, as well...

By Ron Spielman Yet another terror attack. In this case, though, quite a lot is different. It is the first such attack suffered by New Zealand—a hitherto relatively peaceful multicultural society far from the...

By Susan Hutchinson Defence Minister Christopher Pyne has released the report of the independent review of the Defence Trade Controls Act 2012. The report comes at a time when the government is under increasing...

By Henk Van Ess A fugitive convict from the Netherlands is taunting Dutch police with provocative pictures and videos from Iran, playing a game of “catch me if you can” on Instagram. “I love...

By Josh Hallwright The world is undergoing continuous change, with peaks of dramatic leaps. Ignoring for a moment significant trends in political populism, demographic changes, and environmental risks, these changes may best be summarised...

By Jacinta Carroll For those involved in countering terrorism—communities, officials and researchers—the most crucial question is how to effectively counter the terrorist narrative. Over the past few days, from possibly the most unlikely place...

By Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One The $5.3 billion price tag is the Pentagon’s first public accounting to include the new hangars and various other costs. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)

By Elise Thomas In the wake of the Christchurch attacks, the internet giants Facebook, Google and Twitter have come under pressure for failing to prevent the killer from using their platforms to share his...

By Isaac Kfir The recent announcement by an Australian woman, who is believed to be 24-year-old Zehra Duman from Melbourne, that she wants to return to Australia with her two children raised the usual...

By Rhys De Wilde, Luke Courtois, Mali Walker and Genevieve Feely Sea state Russian media has said that the country’s navy will arm up to six of its submarines with ‘Poseidon’ nuclear torpedoes. The...

By Shlomo Ben-Ami In his 1982 Nobel lecture, the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez condemned the West’s insistence on ‘measuring us with the yardstick that they use for themselves’ and ‘forgetting that the ravages...

By David Brewster Australia is an important Indian Ocean power and it needs to start acting like one. As ASPI’s new report, Australia’s second sea: Facing our multipolar future in the Indian Ocean argues,...

By Bhavya Gupta India is a non-traditional donor in the Pacific and has only recently stepped up its presence in the region. In monetary terms, India committed US $134 million in aid to the...

By Uri Friedman, The Atlantic Pyongyang’s latest threats don’t necessarily mean diplomacy is dead. But they are a sign of just how deadlocked nuclear talks have become. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)

By Lani Kass In 2006, a relatively obscure book caused a major stir among the U.S. Air Force leadership. Why Air Forces Fail, edited by Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris, lays out the...

By Brendan Nicholson The impression of New Zealand from afar—and while you’re there—is of a beautiful country with friendly people and good food safely tucked away behind Australia and far from the traumas afflicting...

By Jacinta Carroll The most substantial changes to gun laws are those made in response to public demand for tighter controls in the aftermath of massacres such as the terrorist killings in Christchurch. But...