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Stimulates public discussion on major challenges relating to Australia’s strategic and defence policy, and contributing to the vital national conversation about Australia’s future in the Indo-Pacific.

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Wed, 21 Jul 2021

Competing strategic imaginaries in Southeast Asia
Evelyn Goh analyses the three competing strategic imaginaries in Asia: the ‘Asia Pacific’, a revived ‘Greater Asia’, and the 'Indo-Pacific' visions.
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Wed, 23 Jun 2021

The challenge of warning time in the contemporary strategic environment
Paul Dibb and Richard Brabin-Smith have an important discussion on the challenge of reduced warning time for Australia’s defence planning.
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Wed, 19 May 2021

Challenges to Australia's strategic imagination
Brendan Sargeant explores elements of the Australian strategic imagination and sets out challenges faced in response to the current strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific.
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Thu, 27 Sep 2018

Why Australia Needs a Radically New Defence Policy
For the first time since the Second World War, there is now the prospect of a potential adversary operating in our neighbourhood and capable of threatening us with high-intensity conflict.