ASPI Resident Senior Fellow David Wroe joined Kieran Gilbert on Sky News Australia on 26 June to unpack some of the key discussions from the 2026 ASPI Defence Conference 'Securing the Region for Un...
Why did the German-French-Spanish fighter project – the Future Combat Air System – fail? Has Germany’s rise to become Europe’s leading defence investor profoundly shifted the balance of power on t...
Why did the German-French-Spanish fighter project – the Future Combat Air System – fail? Has Germany’s rise to become Europe’s leading defence investor profoundly shifted the balance of power on t...
Australia is developing world-class uncrewed systems. But are they the right ones? The Lowy Institute's Mick Ryan argues that while the Ghost Bat and Ghost Shark represent genuine innovation, their...
Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly central to warfighting. And the firms that build it are critical partners to militaries around the world. Once such company is Britain’s Faculty AI,...
ASPI this week released our Cost of Defence report which, as always, has taken a thorough and rigorous look at every dollar spent on defence in the budget. And to help us make sense of the $66.4 bi...
At the Lowy Institute, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles explains why autonomous systems and drones are no longer on the fringes of Australia's defence thinking, they're at the centre of it.
A...
Developing Taiwan’s Drone Ecosystem: A Conversation with Shield AI’s Brandon Tseng
Drones are at the center of the global defense conversation — and nowhere is that more strategically consequential than Taiwan. Lai Ching-te’s administration has made drone production a national pr...
Taiwan Frontlines with Brandon Tseng (Co-Founder of Shield AI)
Drones are dominating the global defense conversation, and nowhere is that more consequential than Taiwan, which recently committed roughly $3B to build out a domestic drone ecosystem.
Joining Bon...
High-level Conversation on Civil Defence
Sweden's Minister for Defence Dr Pål Jonson and Alexander Kamyshin, Advisor for Strategic Affairs to Ukraine’s President, joined a high-level conversation on civil defence chaired by Dr Bastian Gi...
Civil Defence in the Ukraine War
Alexander Kamyshin, Advisor for Strategic Affairs to Ukraine’s President, sharing his insights on civil defence in the Ukraine war.
IISS Stockholm Defence Forum 2026 | #IISS_SCDF26
21–22 April 20...
Special Address
Sweden’s Minister for Defence Dr Pål Jonson delivered his Special Address at the inaugural IISS Stockholm Civil Defence Forum, outlining Sweden’s approach to civil defence as total defence.
IISS S...
Opening Remarks: Civil Defence in Sweden
Sweden's Minister for Civil Defence delivered his Opening Remarks, following Dr Bastian Giegerich's Welcome Remarks at the inaugural IISS Stockholm Civil Defence Forum 2026.
IISS Stockholm Defence...
Presentation: Civil Defence in Europe: An Initial Assessment
The latest IISS report, produced in cooperation with the Swedish Defence Research Agency in the context of the inaugural IISS Stockholm Civil Defence Forum, assesses the principal approaches to and...
ASPI’s head and deputy head of defence strategy, Mike Hughes and Courtney Stewart, join us to dissect Australia’s new National Defence Strategy and Integrated Investment Plan.
It’s the right stra...
General Sir Richard Barrons KCB CBE, Senior Consulting Fellow in Chatham House's International Security Programme, explains the 'hard choice' facing the UK on how to fund defence spending.
It fol...
ASPI’s Director of Defence Strategy Mike Hughes AIM joined Kieran Gilbert on Sky News Australia to provide his analysis of the 2026 National Defence Strategy, noting the government’s progress in ad...
General Sir Richard Barrons KCB CBE, Senior Consulting Fellow in Chatham House's International Security Programme, explains the 'hard choice' facing the UK on how to fund defence spending.
It fol...
Adapting Under Fire: Ukraine's Race to Reinvent Modern Defense
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine has been forced to adapt its military at every level—and to do it fast, under fire, and at scale. From evolving air defense doctrine and battlefi...
AGILE is the EU's new €115 million funding instrument designed to accelerate disruptive defence technologies from lab to battlefield — at record speed.
🔹 Grants of €1M–€5M for European SMEs
🔹 Fast.