Many elements of 21st-century warfare echo those of the 20th century. The nature of war as a brutal and fundamentally human ...

The Assad family’s half-century rule has come to a seemingly unexpected demise in the span of just 11 days. There is little ...

The Royal Australian Navy needs missile reloading facilities in the north of the country, most obviously at Darwin and Cairns. The southern ports where Australian warships now take on munitions are ...

Papua New Guinea’s entrance into the National Rugby League (NRL) is officially confirmed. Already, sports writers are excitedly pulling out their whiteboards to draw up potential rosters for the ...

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s visit last week to three independent Pacific island states was more important than it ...

Explanation is in illumination. To understand why the regime of Bashar al-Assad fell so suddenly in Syria in the past week, ...

Political instability in the Pacific isn’t significantly increasing. It just feels like it—with the recent dissolution of ...

Military intervention by China in Myanmar’s civil war is more likely than generally thought. While attention is fixed on Beijing’s expansionist activities in the South China Sea and aggressive ...

Greater alignment between Australia and South Korea in critical technologies would produce significant strategic benefit to ...

It’s access to Syrian territory that Russia and Iran will miss most after the fall of their friend Bashar al-Assad, the ...

Youth radicalisation and its connection to political violence and terrorism is an urgent concern. Despite consistent warnings ...

Runaway ice loss causing rapid and catastrophic sea level rise is possible within our lifetime,’ according to a joint ...