Thai foreign policy is frequently characterised by the metaphor of bamboo bending with the wind. The simultaneous strength and...
Planet A A heatwave across Greenland which raised temperatures 18° Celsius higher than average has resulted in the first recorded...
You might not consider disease to be a national security issue, but that depends on how you define national security. A ‘disease’, by the way, is...
When the Mamas and Papas sang ‘The darkest hour is just before dawn’, they referenced an age-old belief that dire events appear bleakest just before they...
In a previous article, I made the case for Australia developing and launching its own interplanetary mission—a probe to the moon, or to Mars or other...
The most often quoted line of the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu is that ‘supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting’....
As the world bets on vaccines as a way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccine candidates have quickly become a vehicle for national influence. China, Russia...
Australia’s space sector is making steady progress towards establishing a sovereign space capability, both for civil and commercial roles and for defence and national...
Two of Australia’s leading experts on the Covid-19 pandemic say there’s a very good chance a vaccine will be developed for the disease but there will...