By Steve Mollman, Quartz Kim Jong Un is likely aiming for economic concessions and a long-elusive peace treaty. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)

By Katie Bo Williams, Defense One An infantry unit will get Strykers, and a Stryker brigade will shift to tanks, part of the Pentagon’s focus on great-power competition. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)

By Jacqueline Westermann, Malcolm Davis and James Brorson The world Bashar al-Assad’s forces downed a Russian military plane over Syria on Monday night, killing all 15 Russians on board. Consult the New York Times...

By Malcolm Davis Chinese influence in the South Pacific is growing. Through ‘debt-trap diplomacy’, Beijing is extending a spur off its Maritime Silk Road that runs across the South China Sea and into Papua...

By Cynthia Wong Every day we carry our lives on digital devices tucked in our pockets. But public trust in those devices has reached an all-time low thanks to scandals ranging from election interference...

By David Lea The proposed devaluation of the PNG Kina has recently been promoted by international donor agencies, specifically the IMF, and academics at The Australian National University (ANU). Stephen Howes, of the Crawford...

By Rod Lyon In the wake of the recent North Korea – South Korea summit, it has become clearer than ever how Kim Jong-un defines ‘denuclearisation’: it’s a series of limited unilateral declarations which...

By Kevin Baron, Defense One After seven rental scooters were abandoned at the Pentagon following this year’s September 11 remembrances, police say they will begin impounding the unauthorized rides. Bikes, too. …read more From::...

By Michael Shoebridge The relationship between the Australian and Chinese governments would benefit from a clearer declaration from Australia about what is and is not in our national interest in engaging with the Chinese...

By Rebecca Moore, Aru Kok, Georgia Grice and Aakriti Bachhawat The beat Private security service supplements police Residents of Glastonbury in the UK are considering hiring a private security company to help combat rising...

By Claire Young For Australian policymakers, the security advantages of the Antarctic Treaty would seem to be hiding in plain sight. The luxury of a secure, demilitarised southern neighbourhood saves us a great deal...

By Andrea Babon and Lisa Denney This final blog in the three-part series on adaptive programming focuses on research and learning (see our earlier instalments on what it takes to work adaptively in implementation...

By Katie Bo Williams, Defense One “No one should be happy about the weaponization of declassification,” security expert says. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)

By Connor Dilleen The mid-August standoff between Hui Muslims and Chinese officials seeking to demolish the new Weizhou Grand Mosque in Ningxia may not have garnered the same global attention as the mass internment...