Andrew Davies

Gregory Blake’s 2025 book, Into the Valley of Death: the charge of the Light Brigade and the Crimean War, is one of a new ‘Shot of History’ series...

At midnight on 27 February 1942, 119 men of C Company of the British 2nd Parachute Battalion and one Royal Air Force technician parachuted into...

The Great Man theory of history, which posits that history is shaped mainly by hugely influential and singular individuals, was once the primary form...

At an ASPI conference a few years ago, I remarked that I thought that major surface combatants had been obsolete for many decades, and that the only...

I was pleased to become involved when ASPI was asked to run a workshop on secure communication technologies late last year. It’s been a long time...

A few weeks ago, the Royal Australian Air Force took delivery of two new-build F-35A joint strike fighters—the third and fourth such aircraft to fly...

As I described in my previous piece , I’ve recently come around to the view that we need to do something to reduce the probability of a...

We’re in Tokyo this week for the fifth Quadrilateral Plus track-two dialogue, along with think tanks from Japan, India and the U. S.

Originally published 26 October 2017. This post is adapted from a presentation to the Australian Naval Institute’s 2017 Goldrick seminar.

There’s been a lot of press in the past few years about the potential impact of quantum technologies. The casual observer exposed to the more...