Given the pace and spread of cyber attacks around the world, Canberra and Washington will be spending a lot more time consulting. October was cybersecurity month in Washington. On Capitol Hill and in several think tanks around town, US policymakers and analysts focused on various aspects of the cybersecurity problem, from the nature and scale...

Australia’s submarine fleet should be managed not as a succession of essentially distinct projects and equipment types, but in a holistic capability-focused way. The future submarine project is potentially the nation's biggest ever engineering undertaking. But at the moment it is making little progress. In part that's because the ongoing saga of the Collins fleet...

Providing the ADF with state of the art equipment can be a challenging business. Sometimes the world market can provide a proven solution with the right level of capability, but often that isn't the case. Then it's a matter of either accepting a more modest level of performance or going down the path of developing...

This paper argues that while succession is looking more assured in Pyongyang – with Kim Jong-eun set to accede to the leadership – this period represents a time of potential instability in North Korea. Additionally, the North’s unveiling of a uranium enrichment facility, and their 2010 military provocations are cause for concern. In the midst...

The ADF's current force posture is the result of a series of decisions made when the world was quite different from today. It's therefore appropriate to have another look at the match of resources to strategic need. But ultimately, any future decision to move sizeable ADF force elements—especially to remote locations—would have to be based...