DFNS.net Policy Edition
By Jack Viola, Eliza Chapman, Jacqueline Westermann and Harley Comrie Sea state A Chinese flotilla has arrived off Russia for exercises in the Baltic Sea. The Chinese contingent, which conducted live-fire drills in the...
By Peter Layton The future of the ADF is ‘fifth generation’, or at least the Chiefs of Army, Navy and Air Force think so. It might’ve been just a passing fad, given that the...
By Andrew Exum, The Atlantic By asking active-duty personnel to lobby Congress in their own self-interest, President Trump crossed an important line. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)
By Fergus Hanson The cybersecurity dimensions of the 2017 intelligence review report have been mostly overlooked, but it contains some interesting recommendations, as well as leaving considerable detail still to be worked out. The...
By Luke Kiddle Rennell – the world’s largest raised coral island – is a small Polynesian outlier of Solomon Islands. With neighbouring Bellona, it forms tiny Rennell and Bellona Province, population approximately 3,000. Rennell...
By Russian Defense Policy This week’s Russian MOD graphic shows 195 aircraft, 3,000 trucks, 800 trains, and ten ships delivered military cargo amounting to 65,000 tons of freight, 450 pieces of equipment, and more...
By Interpreter Staff Ukraine Day 1253: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. Yesterday’s coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. An Invasion By Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine …read more From::...
By Interpreter Staff Ukraine Day 1252: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. Yesterday’s coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. An Invasion By Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine …read more From::...
By Caroline Houck, Defense One Technological advancement could produce ocean-spanning consumer UAVs. But extremists won’t necessarily bother with them. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)
By website@atlanticcouncil.org (James Hasik) Avoiding despair about military radio communications is the first step towards robust solutions. The US Army may be taking a knee in its pursuit of modernizing its battlefield radio communications....
By Daniel DePetris On July 10, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, pulling on the same black uniform and jacket that Iraq’s elite counterterrorism forces wore throughout the battle for Mosul, declared the final liberation...
By Rod Lyon Too often, current tensions in Northeast Asia are seen through one of two dominant lenses: either the growing strategic competition between China and the US—‘destined for war’?—or the sharper and more...
By Peter Lurssen With the federal government committed to spending 2% of GDP on defence over the next decade, Australia’s naval shipbuilding sector is set to undergo a renaissance that will drive the development...
By Vernon White There are lessons for Australia in the soaring death toll across the United States and Canada from the potent opioid fentanyl. Over the past five years, easy availability at relatively low...
By Robyn Alders and Darryl Stellmach At the end of 2016, Oxford dictionaries made “post-truth” their word of the year. The word encapsulates many phenomena: the role of emotionality in politics, mistrust of public...
By Graeme Dobell The roller-coaster nature of Australia’s history with Indonesia—high moments of great optimism, low periods of clash and argument—means that Indonesia’s foreign policy elite is cautious when contemplating the idea of Australia...
By Interpreter Staff Ukraine Day 1251: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. One Ukrainian soldier was killed and two were wounded in battle in the previous reporting period; one separatist fighter was also killed. Yesterday’s coverage of...
By Interpreter Staff Ukraine Day 1250: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. There was another period of heavy casualties as 5 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 9 wounded in the last two days, and 4 civilians were...
By Interpreter Staff Ukraine Day 1250: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. There was another period of heavy casualties as 5 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 9 wounded in the last two days, and 4 civilians were...
By Brendan Nicholson Australia’s massive shipbuilding program must become a strongly focused national effort involving government, Defence and industry, says Chief of Navy Tim Barrett. ‘It will only work if it’s a national enterprise,...
By Charles S. Clark Fictional law enforcement agency successfully bought items ranging from night vision goggles to small arms. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)