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Indo-Pacific/Asia

October 7, 2026

Australia's Security Race in the South Pacific

Waging a “permanent contest” with China in the South Pacific, Australia is building new alliances and a new security system. Treaties signed with...

Graeme Dobell • Strategic Analysis Australia

China

May 14, 2025

Stress-Testing U.S. Soft Power

The father of soft power and smart power has died, just as the United States has been giving those concepts a deathly stress test. Whereas US...

Graeme Dobell • The Strategist (ASPI)

U.S. Army

February 18, 2025

Tanks for the Memories

The start and the end of two decades of Australia’s Abrams M1A1 tanks came together in a moment of policy symmetry. As Australia shipped 49 retired...

Graeme Dobell • The Strategist (ASPI)
Singapore Security Forum

Indo-Pacific/Asia

June 3, 2024

U.S. Versus China in Asian Security at Shangri-La Dialogue

The annual Singapore sound-off between the defence ministers of China and the U. S.

Graeme Dobell • The Strategist (ASPI)
Asia Defense

Maritime Strategy

June 6, 2023

The Choppy Seas and Non-Dialogue of U.S.–China Relations

Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu delivers his speech on the last day of the 20th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)...

Graeme Dobell • The Strategist (ASPI)

Indo-Pacific/Asia

December 13, 2022

The Tough Security Outlook for the Indo-Pacific

Here’s the ‘darkening’ security outlook for the Indo-Pacific for 2023. The U.

Graeme Dobell • The Strategist (ASPI)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

July 11, 2022

NATO Recognises Global Power Shift to the Indo-Pacific

The central balance of international power this century will be set in the Indo-Pacific. So ends a 500-year stretch of history when the central...

Graeme Dobell • The Strategist (ASPI)
Russia Ukraine War Odesa Threatened

Europe

March 28, 2022

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Killed Europe's Hot Peace

The debate about whether we’re in a new cold war has a decisive, brutal answer. For Europe, the lines of cold war 2.

Graeme Dobell • The Strategist (ASPI)

Grand Strategy

October 2, 2020

U.S. 'Strategic Approach' to China: Compete, Compel and Challenge

Since U. S.

Graeme Dobell • RealClearDefense

Indo-Pacific/Asia

October 2, 2020

Coexistence or War in the Indo-Pacific

‘A path can be charted between conflict and capitulation. The future is not solely in the hands of an authoritarian China or an unpredictable,...

Graeme Dobell • RealClearDefense

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