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Suggesting that the 🇦🇺 govt has “under reacted” to the 🇨🇳 task force deployment is one thing, but suggesting how they should have responded is quite another. I’m still unclear what is being demanded here. www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-naval...

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Jim McDowell, deputy secretary naval shipbuilding and sustainment to quit. Follows immediately after the public disagreement over SEA3000 decision timing www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Growing calls for a Plan B - at least 2 I’ve seen in the mainstream press today. I can’t imagine that either Dutton or Albanese will pick up the mantle. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“We’re paid to be pessimistic” It’s a common refrain from the nat sec community, and was echoed by Hugh Jeffrey last year. I would love to see how anyone can argue that 🇦🇺 Defence & govt are being anything other than ostrich-like over optimistic on 🇺🇸

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

There is something almost medieval about the expectation that allies and partners turn up bearing gifts and showing a suitable level of subservience and thanks. Difficult to see how the trust essential to alliance relationships survives this.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I think we’ve got a winner here! 😂

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Marles is now clashing in public with his relevant program officials over the SEA 3000 timeline. This is what happens when government insists on fantasy schedules & magical thinking, refusing to accept reality when it hits. I'm sure this is fine. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Adding my tuppence to the ongoing discussion over the significance or otherwise of the 🇨🇳 Task Group. theconversation.com/political-fi...

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🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ “🇨🇳 has just conducted a brazen rehearsal for a naval land missile attack mission against eastern 🇦🇺,” the noted defence hawk said...“We should have stalked the task group with F-35s & [subs] & made it clear that it was within our killing zone.” www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

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'Will you be discussing AUKUS?' Trump: 'What does that mean?' 🤦‍♂️ That said, I was only saying yesterday how AUKUS staying below the level of the political maelstrom in the 🇺🇸 maybe a good thing, so 🤷‍♂️ It does however undermine the repeated claims that “Trump clearly backs AUKUS”.

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The regular drumbeat of people saying that SEA3000 should select the 🇯🇵 option due to geo-strategic reasons continues to raise red flags. 1/3 www.aspistrategist.org.au/strategic-an...

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“The last use of live fire by a non-allied nation off the coast of Sydney was by Imperial Japanese Navy mini-submarines in 1942.” You mean apart from during Talisman Sabre and basically every other multilateral exercise we do? www.uts.edu.au/acri/researc...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Oh wow… a “trigon”

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Fascinating to see how a misplaced public narrative in 🇦🇺 around the EEZ being “ours” is driving the process of territorialisation of the seas even in a country that has championed the rights of maritime states.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Can you imagine if 🇬🇧 or 🇸🇪 had responded in the way that 🇦🇺 has every time a Soviet warship entered within 200 nautical miles of their coasts in the Cold War?! There would have been so much perpetual outrage there would have been no time for any thing else!!!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

My favourite bit of this is that the US Attorney for DC does not know how to use an apostrophe.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Ooooofff!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

An excellent and measured piece suggesting how 🇦🇺 needs to respond to the extraordinary shifts taking place in 🇺🇸 policy. I also did like this line - “ an arms-for-minerals deal in a shakedown that would make Don Corleone blush” www.aspistrategist.org.au/trumps-turbu...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Hegseth saying the quiet part out loud.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Help! On Friday the National Library of Australia suspended my Trove API keys, threatening 15 year's work helping researchers use & understand Trove. If you use my tools or value my work you might like to let the NLA know. Details here […]

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Sad and befuddling news. The NLA has removed digital historian Tim Sherratt’s Trove API access - threatening the award-winning work Tim has done over 15 years to highlight the possibilities of Trove data. Read more updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y... 🗃️

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

A post for the ages 😂

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Whilst we are all “did they, didn’t they” over the PLAN task group, there is remarkably little attention being given to a story which is potentially far more damaging to 🇦🇺 security The dismissal of the Judge Advocates General seems especially worrying amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

🇦🇺 politicians once again covering themselves in glory…. A pretty weak response so far from the government, and a ridiculous diatribe from Hastie seeking to confuse and score points. Great work all. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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Interesting numbers in here. It does, however seem remarkable to conclude that Europe needs to increase its defence spending by double what the IISS states 🇷🇺defence spending. Genuine Q from one who has very limited expertise in this area www.bruegel.org/analysis/def...

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“Commercial pilots warned of potential hazard in airspace around Chinese warships” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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Lots of chat about Australia needing a Plan B given the events in the US, so I thought it is time to re-up this once again. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

"We have a big, beautiful Ocean as seperation' This could be taken word for word from 1930s isolationists (or even before). Statements like this, together with the reported DoD cuts suggest a true return to America First.

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