Intelligence

Eyes over the paddock: farm monitoring with Chinese drones is a national security risk (Jason Van der Schyff – The Strategist)

Australia’s national security conversation often focuses on critical minerals, undersea cables, sovereign cloud and satellite capabilities. Yet one area remains underexamined: the quiet, high-resolution...

Northern Australian defence infrastructure can support cooperation with Indonesia (Nathaniel Streher – The Strategist)

Under the 2023 Defence Strategic Review, investment and development are shifting toward northern Australia. This aims to reposition Defence capabilities and build a stronger...

Trade Talks, Real Moves: PRC Locks Down Critical Minerals Behind the Scenes (Matthew Johnson – The Jamestown Foundation)

Beijing has formally escalated its critical minerals strategy by launching a coordinated, multi-agency campaign to enforce full-chain control over rare earth and strategic mineral...

Latest PLA Anti-Corruption Campaign Enhances Xi Jinping’s Control Over the Military (K. Tristan Tang – The Jamestown Foundation)

The PLA followed the overall disciplinary work of the Chinese Communist Party to promote the “all-around battle” against corruption. The “all-around battle” against corruption...

The Armed Forces of the Future (Michael Froman – Council on Foreign Relations)

The future of defense strategy requires restructuring forces for modern threats, focusing deployments on critical regions, accelerating tech integration, reforming procurement and budgets, revitalizing...

Implications of Xi’s PLA Tiger Hunt (Soufan Center)

Over the past two years, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been subject to waves of purges of its senior leadership, highlighting systemic issues...

The United Nations calls for urgent regulation of military AI (Digital Watch Observatory)

The UN and global experts have emphasised the urgent need for comprehensive regulation of AI in military applications. UN Secretary has called for ‘global...

Operation ENDGAME strikes again: the ransomware kill chain broken at its source (Europol)

Cybercriminals around the world have suffered a major disruption after law enforcement and judicial authorities, coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, dismantled key infrastructure behind...

270 arrested in global dark web crackdown targeting online drug and criminal networks (Europol)

A global law enforcement operation coordinated by Europol has struck a major blow to the criminal underground, with 270 arrests of dark web vendors...

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