Intelligence

Assessment of the Global Terrorism Threat Landscape in Mid-2025 (Soufan Center)

Al-Qaeda’s franchise groups, affiliates, and regional branches have ebbed and flowed in strength, but at the moment, both al-Shabaab in Somalia and Jama’a Nusrat...

An AUKUS ultimatum for Australia over Taiwan risks backfiring on Washington (Andrew O’Neil – The Interpreter)

A weekend report in the Financial Times that US Under Secretary of Defence for Policy Elbridge Colby has been privately pushing Australia and Japan...

Can Malaysia nudge ASEAN beyond non- interference to tackle the scam crisis in Myanmar? (Liu Weiyi, Asha Hemrajani – The Interpreter)

Across East and Southeast Asia, the UN estimates that countries collectively suffered estimated loss of US $37 billion in 2023 from the scam cartels....

Cost of Defence’s roadmap for spending 3 percent of GDP on defence (Marc Ablong – The Strategist)

The current debate on Defence funding, sparked by our 29 May report The Cost of Defence: ASPI Defence budget brief 2025–2026, and a subsequent...

In the fight against drugs, Australia should follow the money (John Coyne – The Strategist)

Australia is losing the fight to disrupt illicit drug supply chains, not for lack of effort, but because we need additional weapons and new...

Delisting Hayat Tahrir al-Sham: Implications for U.S. Counterterrorism and Syria Policy (Aaron Y. Zelin – The Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

Seven months after leading the rebel offensive that ousted Bashar al-Assad, and nearly thirteen years since being designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)...

When stars align: Leveraging European defence budgets to drive a dual-use tech boom (Joris Teer, Giuseppe Spatafora – EUISS)

Europe’s security and economic competitiveness are under growing strain. Danish intelligence estimates indicate that Russia could test NATO’s Article 5 in a few years...

Canada’s Hikvision ban can inspire wider collective action (Justin Bassi and James Corera – The Strategist)

Canada has just made a great step forward in minimising the security risk from China. Now Australia should step forward and propose to work...

For Quad to be taken seriously, it must formalise and expand (Gabriel Otis – The Strategist)

The Quad must formalise through a permanent secretariat and expand to include South Korea and New Zealand to remain relevant to Indo-Pacific security. Now...
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