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WEB3 Oct 2024 | John Coyne. Australia needs a policy for delivering the minimum manufacturing capacity that would ensure national resilience, security and economic prosperity. Unfortunately, Australia’s domestic manufacturing capacity is generally declining, except in the defence industry and, in time, …. ASPI's analysis and commentary site.
Australia–Japan 2+2 and the latticework of partners
WEBSep 5, 2024 · They understand that the bilaterals, trilaterals (such as Australia-Japan-US and AUKUS), the Quad and even the Five Eyes all make up the ‘lattice of networks’ that is designed to enhance the security and well-being of the region. Malcolm Davis, senior analyst. Ministers didn’t mention the important area of space in their public remarks.
Warning and decision: intelligence, policymaking, and rumours of …
WEBThe classical model for understanding ‘warning failures’ was set out by Roberta Wohlstetter in Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (1962). Richard K. Betts built on her work in Surprise Attack: Lessons for Defense Planning (1982). While the former focused on a failure by analysts to connect and make sense of signals as against noise ...
China shows how Western governments should stockpile minerals
WEBMar 6, 2024 · A European Parliament study emphasises the strategic angle: ‘China’s stockpile is growing to secure reserves in the event of a conflict,’ it says. Alternatively, an analyst told Bloomberg that China accumulates minerals to ensure key industries have enough supply amid rising global demand. And Fastmarkets, a price reporting agency, says ...
Why the US will stay dominant in undersea warfare
WEBThe reason for this is that for more than half a century the United States has persistently poured vast amounts of research and development into superior underwater warfare technology. Naturally, these capabilities are among the United States’ most highly guarded secrets, so little information about them is in the public domain.
Australia sees the West Philippine Sea in the South China Sea
WEBJun 4, 2024 · The ‘West Philippine Sea’ was first used by Manila in 2011 in expressing its disagreement with Beijing’s claim. The ‘West Philippine Sea’ refers only to waters in the Philippines’ 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone, not the whole of the South China Sea. Australia’s previous Liberal-National Party government stuck to using ...
The Australia–South Korea partnership is ripe for a refresh
WEBOct 26, 2023 · Notes: a. The technologies in this table were chosen because they are listed as defence-relevant technologies in ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker.However, only the technologies that fulfilled the following two criteria were chosen: China ranked first in terms of proportion of high-impact research, and South Korea and Australia ranked in the top 10 countries in terms of proportion of high ...
Australia should seize the chance to be an undersea cable hub for …
WEB25 Sep 2024 | Jocelinn Kang and Jessie Jacob. Australia has an opportunity to strengthen its position as a regional digital hub in the Indo-Pacific, as the submarine cable industry undergoes a transformation. Capitalising on this chance will take strategic focus and decisive action. The rise of United States-based hyperscalers—Google, Meta ...
Critical technology tracker: two decades of data show rewards of …
WEBAug 30, 2024 · China and the United States have effectively switched places as the overwhelming leader in research in just two decades, ASPI’s latest Critical Technology Tracker results reveal.. The latest tracker findings, which can be found in a new report and on the website, show the stunning shift in research leadership over the past 21 years towards large economies in the Indo-Pacific, led by China ...
A progress report on hypersonics—doubtful US weapons for the …
WEBSep 6, 2024 · The US and Australia have been collaborating on technology for hypersonic weapons since 2007, but you might be forgiven for not knowing that. Until 2014, when China was seen to be testing the DF-17 boost-glide weapon, the standard line was that ‘hypersonics are the weapon of the future—and they always will be.’The Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) program ...