Australia needs to conduct a risk assessment to determine what munitions are required and ensure the defence industry understands what the ADF regards as a priority.

Frontline workers are generally the lowest paid with the harshest working conditions but are the most ignored by CEOs—but Covid-19 proved how essential frontline workers are to the broader economy.

Milne Bay is located on the easternmost tip of mainland PNG. During WW2, it was of significant strategic value as Japan would first have to capture Milne Bay to gain air superiority over the sea approaches to Port Moresby.

Fewer fighters being purchased, the covid, and the updating of platform capabilities should see the price of an F-35 rise.

Nine months after Russia’s invasion, Kyiv is facing a ‘complete shutdown’ of power because Russia has crippled the Ukrainian grid—war crimes investigators say hundreds of Ukrainians have also disappeared in Kherson.

An Israeli general has now confirmed—what has unofficially always been known—that Israel uses drones for both surveillance and strikes against Palestinian militants in Gaza and possibly even further away.

Russia has turned Russian energy resources, such as natural gas, into an economic weapon against Europe—but this strategy now looks like it could hurt Russia.

The Russians had a firepower advantage, but the Ukrainians had the benefit of defending their homeland, which included—high-motivation, good logistics, and operating over familiar terrain.

Tests of the XQ-58A Valkyrie Block 2 drone demonstrated that it could use encrypted connections; further, it was capable of autonomous operations when and if required.

In the 1990s—when the Cold War between the USSR (Russia) and the USA ended—NATO countries reduced their defence expenditure; however, since Putin invaded Ukraine, there has been a dramatic increase in US armament sales to NATO countries.