The argument, at length
Authored opinion on Australia's strategic preparedness, separate from the weekly briefing. Companion to the book Unprepared: Australia in an Age of Chinese Power.
The age of strategic comfort is over
Allies short of shells, a closed Strait of Hormuz, cheap drones beating expensive missiles, and coercion as routine statecraft. This is the world Australia already lives in, and it is not ready for it. Part II of the Unprepared series.
Read the editorialAustralia has drifted into a more dangerous world, unprepared
The assumptions the country has relied on for decades are failing at once. This is the most dangerous strategic period since 1945, and Australia has walked into it badly unready. The first in a weekly series drawn from Unprepared.
Read the editorialThe cheque book has a ceiling. The Pacific needs a decision.
A treaty ally just read from Beijing's script. Aid and alliances have hit their limit, and the only answer left is bigger than anything Canberra will admit.
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