Intelligence

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...

Taiwan, South Korea and Japan also need to spend 5 percent on defence (Ju Hyung Kim – The Strategist)

There’s no shortage of measures that the United States’ major East Asian friends could spend an increased defence budget on. NATO allies of the...

Russian bulletproof hosting service Aeza Group sanctioned by US for ransomware work (Adam Janofsky – The Record)

A Russia-based company providing technical tools to ransomware gangs and digital drug dealers was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday. Aeza Group...

Cyberattack on Russian independent media had links to US-sanctioned institute, researchers find (Daryna Antoniuk – The Record)

A Russian hosting provider allegedly involved in a recent cyberattack against independent media organizations in the country is reportedly connected to a state-affiliated research...

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