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Russo-Ukraine War

August 6, 2026

Learning From Ukraine: Semi-Autonomy Can Deliver Combat Mass

Generating operational mass in the Indo-Pacific requires new approaches to projecting, sustaining and employing military power across vast distances...

Malcolm Davis • The Strategist (ASPI)

Sea (Maritime, Naval Operations)

June 2, 2026

AUKUS Pillar Two Lunges for an Operational Capability – Underwater

With the ‘signature project’ on payloads for uncrewed undersea vehicles (UUVs) announced by Australia, Britain and the United States on 30 May at the...

Malcolm Davis • The Strategist (ASPI)

Military Strategy

April 15, 2026

War at the Speed of Light: The Emerging Role of Directed-Energy Weapons

For decades, notions of laser weapons have been the stuff of science fiction. Now they are becoming military reality, as directed-energy weapons,...

Malcolm Davis • The Strategist (ASPI)
China Zhuhai Airshow

Air Warfare

September 25, 2025

China May Soon Reach Far Into the Pacific With Many Uncrewed Bombers

China is clearly thinking ambitiously about long-range power projection with autonomous aircraft. Pictures have emerged of large new Chinese uncrewed...

Malcolm Davis • The Strategist (ASPI)

U.S. Navy

August 25, 2025

Abandoning AUKUS Pillar One Would Gravely Damage the U.S. Alliance

An article in The Strategist by Mike Keating and Jon Stanford on 22 August calling for abandoning the nuclear-submarine element of AUKUS is...

Malcolm Davis • The Strategist (ASPI)

Space Warfare

March 23, 2025

The Future of the Combined Space Operations Initiative

As space becomes more contested, Australia should play a key role with its partners in the Combined Space Operations (CSpO) initiative to safeguard...

Malcolm Davis • The Strategist (ASPI)

U.S. Space Force

October 19, 2024

The Starship Revolution in Space

SpaceX took a big step towards full reusability of space launchers on 13 October, a step towards a transformation in accessing space far more cheaply,...

Malcolm Davis • The Strategist (ASPI)
South Korea Koreas Tensions

North Korea

February 25, 2023

Will South Korea Become the Next Nuclear-Weapon State?

It has long been a concern that North Korea’s nuclear posturing would goad or frighten its neighbours into developing their own nuclear capability....

Malcolm Davis • The Strategist (ASPI)
APTOPIX Romania Ukraine Russia War

Russo-Ukraine War

May 4, 2022

Will Putin Go Nuclear To Avoid Defeat in Ukraine?

It’s been more than 75 years since nuclear bombs were detonated over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, bringing World War...

Malcolm Davis • The Strategist (ASPI)
SpaceX Space Junk

Space Warfare

November 22, 2021

The Ramifications of Russia's Reckless Anti-Satellite Test

The Russian military’s test of a direct-ascent anti-satellite weapon against a defunct satellite has created a huge cloud of more than 1,500 trackable...

Malcolm Davis • The Strategist (ASPI)

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