The US Army is using drones to move blood supplies faster and closer to soldiers injured in combat, with military researchers estimating that 15–20 percent of traumatic combat deaths are potentially preventable.

Calling someone or a workplace toxic is common and an offhanded use of a very strong and potentially harmful label. Most toxic labels are underpinned by behaviours like poor communication, hurt feelings, conflicts, and unreasonable expectations.

The US Navy is filling vacant positions by employing sailors with significant medical conditions. Sailors are given meaningful assignments while Navy fills critical gapped billets ashore and retains the organisational knowledge, skills and experience these sailors possess.

Resilience includes cyber, supply chains, infrastructure, and ….public trust. A whole-of-government and society approach is now essential. Shared resilience efforts can strengthen regional stability. France is advocating coalitions of action and strategic autonomy.

Indonesia is carefully managing ties with major powers—balancing economic interests with diplomatic flexibility—while maintaining autonomy amid growing regional competition and domestic political considerations. Security cooperation agreements were renewed with China, despite maritime tensions.

The U.S. Army is launching a major overhaul of pilot training, following numerous military aviation accidents. The overhaul includes a change of training aircraft, as well as a likely shift to a contractor-operated schoolhouse.

With public support, planned spending doubles over four years. Upgrades include anti-tank and drone defences, uncrewed vehicles, intelligence, cyber and modernised frigates. Trans-Tasman force integration a goal and emphasis on Five Eyes interoperability. AUKUS Pillar Two discussed.

The American Douglas A-20 Havoc light bomber ‘Hell’n Pelican II’ crashed in Papua New Guinea during World War II. The aircraft was found in 1976 and reassembled at RAAF Base Amberley in the 1980s.

RAF is trialling alternate fuels and electric vehicles as both a strategy to build fuel resilience from fossil fuels and work towards net zero carbon emissions. Costs and logistics are early challenges to work through.

US nuclear guarantees are now generally seen as conditional. Japan is openly debating nuclear-sharing arrangements while Korean public support is growing. An arms race risks faster, riskier decision-making. Australia is likely to push for alliance reassurance.