Global Eye on ...

Agentic AI: Does the Future of Warfare Look Autonomous? (The Soufan Center)

Agentic warfare, a military model in which autonomous and semi-autonomous systems are deployed to facilitate or drive planning, logistics, operations, and intelligence, is set...

Battle of the currencies: The dollar versus digital (Stephen Grenville – Lowy The Interpreter)

The US dollar’s role as pre-eminent global currency is under pressure. Enthusiasts of BRICS (the grouping of economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China...

Australia risks wasting its solar superpower status (Clare Caldwell – Lowy The Interpreter)

As statistics go, this is a good one: Australia could generate enough electricity to satisfy the needs of the entire world by covering just...

Fibre-optic drones reshape Ukraine’s technological war (David Kirichenko – Lowy The Interpreter)

Fibre-optic drones have taken a more central role on the battlefields in Ukraine. Frontline soldiers describe the conflict as a war of drones and...

India, the US and the Quad: managing tensions to meet the China challenge (Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan – ASPI The Strategist)

India’s continued purchase of weapons and energy from Russia is raising difficulties in its relationship with the United States that are extending across the...

Eighty years after Hiroshima, the big nuclear risks are in Asia (Al Hynes – ASPI The Strategist)

Eighty years ago, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped end the largest war in history. The bomb has reshaped global power, deterrence...

In cybersecurity, people are the weak point (Annie-Mei Forster and Saja English – ASPI The Strategist)

While cybersecurity professionals often focus on firewalls, encryption and software vulnerabilities, the real battleground is human psychology. While organisations remain fixated on digital defences,...

Nuclear weapons hang in a complex balance (Euan Graham – ASPI The Strategist)

On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there is renewed focus on nuclear weapons in international security. China and other nuclear-armed...

The geopolitics of the Gulf states’ push for critical minerals (Asna Wajid – IISS)

As global demand for critical minerals soars, the Gulf states are expanding their ambitions in the sector through targeted acquisitions and international partnerships, hoping...

Latest articles