Australia confronts the greatest ever threats to its security,yet our bloated defence aristocracy is intellectually stunted. We need urgent action – and that includes a debate on the introduction of national service.
For much of this past week,the US president was consumed by a single question. What should he do about national security adviser Michael Waltz?
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US should take over Greenland and has not ruled out the possibility of using military force to do so.
For US allies,including Australia,the Signal chat scandal is another reminder that this administration cares little for established norms and protocols.
Details of a planned US airstrike in Yemen mistakenly shared with a journalist on the messaging app Signal were almost certainly classified information,military experts say.
The Atlantic released the operational details sent by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to the breached Signal group after the Trump administration insisted the information wasn’t classified.
The Trump administration’s attempt to manage the Signal group chat scandal has run the full gamut of downplay,disparage and deny – but not convincingly.
Two top national security leaders who were members of the highly sensitive Signal group chat discussing airstrikes in Yemen fronted a Senate hearing,denying that classified information had been shared.
Washington is in shock after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic revealed he had been accidentally included in highly sensitive Signal messages about planned strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.
The government commissioned a review into our intelligence services. Why haven’t we seen the results?