Foreign Exchange

MIDTERMS: America can just walk away from the Middle East

MIDDLING POWER: Can we handle being alone in the Pacific?

PLAN B: Counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen on how to defend Australia without submarines

The AUKUS submarine program faces significant delivery risks, necessitating a strategic "Plan B" to ensure Australia’s defense capabilities. David Kilcullen, a noted expert in War Studies, examines the potential for failure in Pillar One, driven by U.S. shipbuilding constraints and complex political certification requi...

MINI-EPISODE: Should Australia go to war with China over Taiwan?

‘Hoovering up’: How Australian spies operate

MIDDLE EAST: The US is losing, so why isn’t Iran winning?

BAMBOO DIPLOMACY: Vietnam and the art of not picking sides

‘Why would China even bother to attack if you don’t taunt her’: Sam & Hugh answer your comments

AUSTRALIA: China’s ballistic missile test has strikingly little to do with us

The leapfrog to lithium-ion submarines: "If anyone can do this, it’s the Chinese"

The many ways in which Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is not Teddy Roosevelt

AUSTRALIA: The paradox of our wartime relationship with America

CHINA: Is Trump’s Iran war about a different theatre?

Trumps Iranian cul-de-sac: 'not so much strategic as political'

Sixth generation aircrafts and China's "immense" asymmetrical advantage

Responding to Trump: Will Anthony Albanese follow Canada’s lead?

Trying to decipher the ‘wacky’ US National Security Strategy

Would Australia choose Indonesia over America?

House of Dynamite, ICBMs in flight, and how nuclear deterrence would really go down

Should Albanese expect the Zelenskyy treatment from Trump?