Thursday, May 25, 2023

ASPI (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) The Strategist's weekly letter ( 19-25 May 2023)

 


Why Western fighter jets are critical to Ukraine’s success—and how Australia could help
Matthew Sussex | 25 May 2023

US President Joe Biden’s decision on 19 May to help facilitate Ukraine’s efforts to procure advanced fourth-generation fighter aircraft was a significant shift in America’s posture. Announced at the G7 summit in Tokyo, the US ...(Read more...)

How the Middle East is adapting to a polarised world
Amin Saikal | 25 May 2023

The Middle East’s strategic equation is rapidly changing against the global backdrop of polarisation between democracies and autocracies. Its authoritarian rulers have lately taken a number of steps to safeguard their positions in this context ...(Read more...)

Australia needs to be clear-eyed about India relationship after Modi visit
Baani Grewal | 25 May 2023

An Australian official once told me that Australians struggle to think beyond the American-led Anglosphere and alliance. There might have been some hyperbole in that remark. But certainly the struggle we have in properly understanding ...(Read more...)

Getting Australia’s war powers right
Graeme Dobell | 25 May 2023

The definitive choice for a nation is sending its troops to war, so the surprise in the parliamentary review of Australia’s war powers is the questioning of the legal process used to go to war ...(Read more...)

Modi in Papua New Guinea: leader of the global south or Quad partner?
Joanne Wallis and Premesha Saha | 24 May 2023

The video of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape warmly embracing, followed by Marape attempting to touch Modi’s feet—a demonstration of respect in Indian culture—was a reminder that ...(Read more...)

When wars are fought in cities, nobody wins
David Tuck | 24 May 2023

On 29 April 2023, Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health reported that the death toll from clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces had risen to 528, with thousands injured. The consequences ...(Read more...)

Defence needs a fresh approach to major projects in Australia’s north
David Malone and John Coyne | 24 May 2023

While the AUKUS agreement and the defence strategic review have focused strong interest on the massive task of building, crewing and operating Australia’s future nuclear-powered submarines, the government has also agreed in principle to sizeable ...(Read more...)

Parliamentary scrutiny is essential for effective national defence
Bec Shrimpton, Alex Bristow, Jennifer Parker and Malcolm Davis | 23 May 2023

Our dangerous times are driving an unprecedented tempo of strategy writing in Canberra. Having barely caught its breath since the AUKUS pathway announcement in March and the release of the defence strategic review (DSR) in ...(Read more...)

Israel at 75
Richard N. Haass | 23 May 2023

Religion and miracles often go hand in hand, so it should come as little surprise that Israel, which just marked its 75th birthday, is something of a miracle. In some ways, Israel’s very existence is ...(Read more...)

How the Quad can become more than an anti-China grouping
Teesta Prakash and Gatra Priyandita | 23 May 2023

To be strategically successful, the Quad needs buy-in from the rest of the Indo-Pacific region, notably from Southeast Asia. It needs to persuade the region that it ‘stands for something and not just against something’, ...(Read more...)

Australian funding for the Pacific brings together all tools of statecraft
Melissa Conley Tyler and Heather Wrathall | 23 May 2023

In a budget speech that focused on domestic priorities, Treasurer Jim Chalmers’s only international announcement was of a package allocating $1.9 billion to strengthening Australia’s relationships in the Pacific. It wasn’t a surprise that the ...(Read more...)

Australia’s intelligence community must adapt to stay ahead of the game
Justin Bassi and Chris Taylor | 22 May 2023

The next independent review of Australia’s intelligence community received welcome funding in this month’s federal budget. That should put Canberra on track to meet the five- to seven-yearly schedule set by the post-Iraq Flood review ...(Read more...)

Walking our talk on climate action
William Ruto | 22 May 2023

Last year in Berlin, the great Kenyan long-distance runner Eliud Kipchoge broke the world marathon record, clocking 02:01:09 and beating his previous time by 30 seconds. His success has made him a legend not only ...(Read more...)

Smooth sailing or choppy waters for Australia, NZ and the US in the Pacific?
Anna Powles and Joanne Wallis | 22 May 2023

Last week’s announcement that US President Joe Biden would not travel to Papua New Guinea to meet with Pacific Islands Forum leaders was met with disappointment. Expectations were high: the White House had labelled the ...(Read more...)

Former minister confident Defence chiefs were unaware of Afghanistan atrocities
Brendan Nicholson | 19 May 2023

Australia’s detailed investigation into allegations that members of its special forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan demonstrated the nation’s commitment to the rule of law, says former defence minister Stephen Smith. In a video interview ...(Read more...)

Bolstering defence innovation in Australia’s north
Guy Boekenstein | 19 May 2023

The story of Darwin really begins with the necessity to establish a support route for the Overland Telegraph to the southern states of Australia. In November 1871, the 1,100-mile submarine cable between Darwin and Banjoewangie in Java ...(Read more...)

Macron’s Gaullist foreign policy
Shlomo Ben-Ami | 19 May 2023

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year galvanised the West against not only the Kremlin, but also other rivals, especially an increasingly assertive China. But last month, French President Emmanuel Macron headed to Beijing, where ...(Read more...)

Gatekeeping the parliamentary intelligence committee won’t make Australia safer
Kate Grayson | 19 May 2023

Reports have emerged of a rare stoush over the usually cordially bipartisan Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS). The source of the fracas is the Labor government’s proposal to expand the committee from ...(Read more...)

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