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Cyber Warfare

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Bringing the grey zone into focus

Australia’s 2020 Defence Strategic Update was, by the standards of such publications, a hard-hitting document. It had a particularly strong focus on grey zone activities, seen as increasingly troubling the Indo-Pacific and involving “military and non-military forms of assertiveness and coercion
By Peter Layton
22 Jul 21
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China and the Rules‑Based Order

Seven experts debate China’s approach to the rules‑based international order
By Ben Scott, Nadège Rolland, John Culver, David Kelly
25 Sep 20
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Explaining Australia’s sharp turn to information warfare

Australia's place in the Asian military scene took a sharp turn last week when the Turnbull Government announced the creation of the country's modified version of a US Cyber Command. The move followed the 2016 Defence White Paper, which foreshadowed a near doubling of defence spending in the decade
By Greg Austin
04 Jul 17
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Full spectrum defence: Re-thinking the fundamentals of Australian defence strategy

In this Analysis, Alan Dupont argues that successive Australian governments have failed to define an effective national defence strategy. Australia needs a defence strategy that counters threats across multiple domains, is based on more diverse regional defence relationships, and is underpinned by
By Alan Dupont
13 Mar 15
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