Australian Strategic Policy Institute
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute is an independent, non-partisan think tank focused on Australia's defence, cyber, tech and strategic policy.
- 'Cyber operations support an environment where grey-zone pressure can be applied, and without repercussions, while advancing strategic interests,' writes Adam Bartley.
- 'Foundational industrial activities are the backbone of process knowledge, skilled labour, tacit know-how and ultimately a broad industrial capability set that can pivot towards new adjacent industrial activities,' writes Naoise McDonagh.
- 'The timing of the audit’s release is significant, coming ahead of the 2026 National Defence Strategy, as Defence juggles accelerating capability programs with workforce constraints and rising sustainment demands,' writes Raelene Lockhorst.
- 'It is prudent to start considering the unthinkable sooner rather than later and plan for a possible world where the anchor of our security architecture continues rewriting that architecture in unexpected ways,' writes Alexander Lee.
- 'Platforms such as X have long occupied a central position in geopolitical information flows. When they allege state-level interference at massive scale, transparency is not optional; it is the minimum requirement for public trust,' writes Fergus Ryan.
- 'Security is not a settled state nor about always guaranteeing stability. It is about reassurance and trust amid instability and threat, and it is maintained with a shared acceptance that risk can be managed but not eliminated,' writes Justin Bassi.
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- 'As Washington concentrates its most capable forces on deterring China while elevating homeland defence and managing commitments elsewhere, allies face harder political and capability choices. They must be able to manage secondary contingencies with little or no US support,' writes Jihoon Yu.
- 'Part of the problem is that negative feelings about US President Donald Trump draw most public interest and commentary on the Australia–US alliance to the here and now, and much of it is petty,' writes Andrew Forrest.
- 'The Joint Staff Department, a critical node for operational planning, joint command and crisis management, appears leaderless. So Xi puts internal political stability above external combat readiness,' writes Ying Yu Lin.
