By John Gans, The Atlantic Requiring congressional approval would be good for Trump, good for his choice for national-security adviser, and good for the country. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)

By Katie Bo Williams, Defense One A lawyer by trade, former Bush delegate at the UN, and campaign advisor to Mitt Romney and Scott Walker, O’Brien has been serving as special envoy for hostage...

By Marcus Hellyer, David Millar and Nathan Ruser ASPI has previously noted that we have come to take precision in modern warfare for granted. But weapons alone cannot achieve precision effects. Precision relies upon...

By Macabe Keliher Protests continue to rock Hong Kong. Throughout the summer—and now pressing into autumn—demonstrators have blocked city streets, shut down the airport and fought running battles with police. Sparked by an anti-civil-liberties...

By Patrick Kaiku The National Goals and Directive Principles (NGDPs) in the Preamble are prominent aspirational statements in the Papua New Guinean National Constitution. Yet, they are also the most neglected part of the...

By Malcolm Davis The news that drones were likely employed in a major attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities at Abqaiq over the weekend has highlighted how unmanned aerial technology can be exploited by...

By Marcus Weisgerber The company is pitching the Pentagon on a five-year deal — with promises to keep 80 percent of the fleet mission-ready. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)

By Patrick Tucker, Defense One It’s about replacing the V-22, eventually. But it’s also about finding new ways to harness commercial innovation. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)

By Rod Lyon We live in the eternal now—a condition which makes it difficult to recall even what happened last week. So readers will be forgiven for not recalling the fine detail of a...

By Sunny Cao, Sarah O’Connor and James Rickard Sea state The UK Ministry of Defence has named Babcock International as the preferred bidder of a £1.25 billion (A$2.27 billion) contract to build five Type...

By Mark Heyward Much is made these days of doing development differently, of adaptive programming, and thinking and working politically. Devpolicy Blog featured a series of articles on this topic in September 2018. But...

By Elizabeth Buchanan The Antarctic Treaty System is a consensus arrangement that has been in place for more than 50 years. It worked well in the 1960s, when nuclear weapons were seen as the...

By Malcolm Davis The US Air Force Space Command has just released a thought-provoking report, The future of space 2060 and implications for US strategy. As the title suggests, it’s looking ahead to the...

By Lauren Richardson Japan’s relationship with South Korea is not amicable at the best of times. Yet in recent months it has entered a rapidly descending diplomatic spiral of unprecedented depth and scope. Mounting...

By Richard N. Haass Nearly everyone has seen the dramatic images of the Amazon ablaze. Tens of thousands of fires—intentionally started or caused by logging, farming, mining and other human activities—have broken out over...

By Meg Keen and Luke Kiddle The Pacific Islands region is rapidly urbanising with mounting social and ecological pressures. To date, regional attention to this significant development challenge has been sporadic at best and...

By Graeme Dobell The Brexit poison in the British polity has also infected Europe. Britain is finished with Europe. Equally, Europe is finished with Britain. The angry British sentiment to get the thing done...

By Katie Bo Williams, Defense One “I think that Pompeo is now running foreign policy in the Trump administration in the way that Cheney ran it in the Bush administration,” said one analyst. …read...

By Peter Jennings Prime Minister Scott Morrison is heading to Washington for an official visit and the rare privilege of a state dinner in the White House. According to the US announcement: ‘The visit...