In Pete Hegseth's words, the Trump administration would end what he called 'four years of deferred maintenance under the ...

By Bill Emmott, independent writer, lecturer and international affairs consultant ...

With political chaos in the US, and mounting belligerence in our region, Anthony Albanese must weigh opportunity against risk ...

The 5% target of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was designed for shock value, particularly when it came to NATO allies, ...

Hegseth focused his warning on Beijing’s stance toward Taiwan, making the stakes clear for the broader region. “To be clear: ...

On the contrary, we will keep getting our defence policy completely wrong if we see defence spending as the price we pay for the US to defend us. We must see it instead as the investment we make in ...

A warlord gets a local toughie across town to ally with him and agree to bring in his armed muscle — right next door to ...

Foreign ministry spokesman for Beijing, Lin Jian, accused Australia of “brazenly” spreading a narrative of China as a threat when Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles met with US, Japanese and ...

Pete Hegseth seemed to be addressing a domestic audience and not those at the security forum in Singapore. Perhaps the ...

The United States Studies Centre’s head of foreign policy and ­defence, Peter Dean, who co-authored the Albanese government’s ...

Analysts warn that developments in the Second Island Chain - which has seen increased manoeuvring from Washington and Beijing ...

Yes, Australians really are getting poorer under Labor. The growth figures for the first three months of this year are a ...