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WEBThe urgent need for a strategic overhaul in Australia’s Defence approach to fuel resilience. Over the last three decades, the Australian Defence Force (ADF), enjoying an era of peace and strategic stability, shifted from prioritising sovereign fuel resilience to investing heavily in outsourcing. With strategic warning times shrinking and ….
The Australian Secret Intelligence Service: purposes and principles ...
WEBNov 1, 2020 · The director-general of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Paul Symon, talks about the purposes of ASIS: spying to collect human intelligence overseas. engaging in intelligence diplomacy through partnerships and exchanges with foreign intelligence services around the world. conducting …
Strategic review must move to secure Australia’s northern defence ...
WEBThe strategic uncertainty we now face requires a paradigm shift in our way of thinking about this infrastructure, especially in Australia’s north. The recently announced defence strategic review provides the perfect opportunity to get that process started. The government needs to take a longer term perspective on defence and multi-user ...
Australia could soon be hosting nuclear-armed US submarines
WEBAug 23, 2024 · Australia is yet to follow South Korea’s example of welcoming a visit by a US ballistic missile submarine, which would always carry dozens of nuclear warheads. But changes afoot in Washington mean Australia could soon be regularly hosting other types of nuclear-capable submarines—those that can deliver nuclear weapons even if …
Australia needs a strategy for critical technologies and the …
WEBMay 13, 2021 · Gavin Brennen is a professor of physics at Macquarie University working in quantum information theory.Simon Devitt is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Quantum Software and Information at the University of Technology Sydney and co-founder and managing director of the quantum consultancy firm, h-bar.Tara Roberson is a researcher in science communication and responsible innovation, working ...
Reassessing Australia’s defence policy (part 1): What is the ADF for?
WEBFour years have now passed since the release of the 2016 defence white paper, the most recent comprehensive review of Australia’s defence policy and capability.The main contours of that document were set down as early as 2014, which was arguably too early to take full account of the geostrategic implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s island-building in the South China Sea.
From the Bookshelf: ‘Australian Defence and Deterrence: A 2024 …
WEBAug 1, 2024 · In Australia’s Defence and Deterrence, long-time analyst of global defence issues and frequent commentator on Australian defence Robbin Laird has written another timely book.He provides a constructively critical and expansive update on the Australian Defence Force. He does so by asking important questions and drawing on presentations delivered at the April 2024 Sir Richard Williams ...
Accelerating defence innovation into ADF service | The Strategist
WEBAug 24, 2023 · The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator began operations on 1 July with an ambitious mission to address the shortcomings of the Defence Innovation Hub and the Next Generation Technology Fund. Prior to being replaced by ASCA, these two initiatives had been the focus of defence-related innovation for …
Nuclear deterrence and the US–Australia alliance
WEBStephan Frühling is an associate professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, Andrew O’Neil is a professor of political science at Griffith University, and David Santoro is director and senior fellow of nuclear policy programs at Pacific Forum. They are the authors of Escalating cooperation: nuclear deterrence and the US–Australia alliance.
The intersection of cybercrime and terrorist activity
WEBApr 1, 2021 · The interface of cybercrime and terrorism gives us a more practical way to conceptualise cyber terrorism in the modern context, and a more concrete target for focusing our efforts. To that end, I suggest a definition of cyber terrorism as ‘the use of cyberspace to enable, inspire, influence or direct a terrorist attack or to raise funds to ...
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