The government’s Defence Trade Controls Act effectively makes teaching encryption a criminal act and considers even a simple calculator as a potential weapon.
L’expertise universitaire, l’exigence journalistique
Articles sur Defence
Affichage de 161 à 180 de 216 articles
New research shows the UK’s military heft depends on a thriving domestic industry to buy things from – and we may be about to cut it drastically.
UKIP’s whole manifesto rests on the premise that the UK will leave the EU.
Plaid Cymru’s Leanne Wood has questioned whether the UK should spent 6% of its budget on defence. Has she got her numbers right?
The Conservatives can’t quite figure out how to both cut defence spending and procure new kit the UK can actually use.
Overseas aid plays a huge role in defence, which makes cutting it a dangerous mistake.
On defence, the Labour manifesto is full of fine words, but lacking in substance.
Nicola Sturgeon has set out her Scottish National Party’s opposition to renewing Britain’s nuclear deterrent. Will it cost that much?
The head of the US army isn’t keen for a key ally to opt out of its commitments.
Days after announcing Australia’s largest ever defence contract will be awarded via a “competitive evaluation process”, the government is still scrambling for a sensible definition of what such a process…
The world’s largest non-nuclear bomb, and easily the most powerful “earthquake bomb” ever built, has now been tested and can be delivered by the B-2 stealth bomber. While the Massive Ordnance Penetrator…
Of all the questions that have emerged about the future make-up of Australia’s new submarine fleet, one has been conspicuous by its absence: do we actually need them in the first place? No doubt strategic…
It appeared to be the announcement Australian industry had been waiting for. Finally, political pressure on prime minister Tony Abbott’s leadership had forced a “fair go” for Australian shipbuilding. On…
Australia has decisively responded to the strategic uncertainty of contemporary East Asia by forming committees and undertaking reviews. 2015 brings with it Australia’s third defence white paper in six…
Design details of Australia’s new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) have been stolen by Chinese spies, according to reports this week, although it’s not clear whether the information was highly classified…
Polling is shortly to close in the battle to become the next Scottish Labour leader, the result of which will be announced on December 13. Given the party’s position in the polls, whoever takes on this…
Cabinet has given the go-ahead for Australia’s Super Hornet fighter jets to strike ISIL targets in Iraq, as well as for its special forces to start working with the Iraqi military as soon as legal documents…
Rumour has it Australia is about to spend an awful lot of money buying some new submarines. This may not be the sort of thing to get the pulses of the casual reader racing, but it ought to be, not least…
The breakdown of an initial ceasefire between Israeli forces and Hamas last weekend played out to a familiar soundtrack: the wail of air-raid sirens and the menacing hiss of incoming rocket fire, followed…
Prime Minister Tony Abbott sat in the pilot seat of a F-35 Joint Strike Fighter at the time he announced his government will buy an additional 58 planes at a cost of at least A$12.4 billion. But imagine…
Les contributeurs les plus fréquents
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Associate Professor of Security and International Relations, Staffordshire University
-
Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
-
Senior Lecturer in Strategic and Defence Studies, Australian National University
-
Professor of Law, University of Waikato
-
Professor, Director, Open Door: Understanding and Supporting Service Personnel and their Families, Flinders University
-
Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
-
Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
-
Director, Foreign Policy and Defence, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
-
Professor of International Security, University of Bath
-
Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
-
UNSW Sydney
-
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
-
Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of York
-
Honorary Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
