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Sea (Maritime, Naval Operations)

April 6, 2025

Navy Needs To Take Stronger Action on China 'Research Ship'

In March the Chinese “research ship” Tan Suo Yi Hao worked with New Zealand scientists to send a miniature submarine 6km down to the bottom of the...

Peter Jennings • Strategic Analysis Australia

Grand Strategy

November 9, 2024

The Hulk Is Back, and He Won't Like Our Defence Weakness

During the 2016 presidential election I wrote that the United States desperately needed Captain America but instead got the Incredible Hulk. Now the...

Peter Jennings • Strategic Analysis Australia

Maritime Strategy

April 15, 2024

Crisis? What Crisis? Policy Perspectives and Strategic Coherence

This is an edited version of an address to the Sir Richard Williams Foundation Conference on the Multi-domain Requirements of an Australian Maritime...

Peter Jennings • Strategic Analysis Australia

Indo-Pacific/Asia

January 23, 2022

Getting the Most Out of AUKUS Could Require Plan B-21

As the Defence Department’s deputy secretary for strategy between 2009 and 2012, I asked U. S.

Peter Jennings • The Strategist (ASPI)
Japan Australia Defense Pact

Indo-Pacific/Asia

January 6, 2022

Deeper Australia–Japan Defence Ties Send Strong Message to China

One of the strengths in Australia’s relationship with Japan is our shared ability to deliver substance as opposed to verbal bombast unmoored to...

Peter Jennings • The Strategist (ASPI)
Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin

Grand Strategy

January 5, 2022

Russia and China Will Threaten the Peace in 2022

As 2021 dragged to an exhausting end, the international strategic outlook remained bleak. Authoritarian regimes are threatening conflict in Europe,...

Peter Jennings • The Strategist (ASPI)
Virus Outbreak China

Information Warfare

September 14, 2020

China's Wolf-Warrior Tactics Are Here to Stay

What is China trying to achieve by its sudden lurch to a bullying, ‘wolf warrior’ global stance? For all the billions of dollars of intelligence...

Peter Jennings • The Strategist (ASPI)
Exercise Diamond Storm 2017

Military Strategy

October 2, 2020

Tindal Air Base Expansion Shows the Way to a More Secure Region

The government’s decision to significantly expand the Royal Australian Air Force’s key northern base near Katherine, around 300 kilometres southeast...

Peter Jennings • RealClearDefense

Indo-Pacific/Asia

October 2, 2020

Northern Australia's Value Not Lost on Friends and Rivals

It has been painfully obvious for years that our major ally, the U. S.

Peter Jennings • RealClearDefense

Indo-Pacific/Asia

October 2, 2020

Field Notes From the Foothills of the New Cold War

The growing pace of strategic change means that every week brings more data points charting the Indo-Pacific’s slide towards a riskier, more dangerous...

Peter Jennings • RealClearDefense

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