On 25 January, China’s People’s Liberation Army announced that Central Military Commission Vice-Chair Zhang Youxia and Chief of the Joint Staff Department General Liu Zhenli were under investigation ...

The long-awaited India–European Union Free Trade Agreement branded as the “mother of all deals” is being celebrated as a triumph of market access. After nearly two decades of stalled negotiations, it ...

The Tuesday firing (or resignation) of president Donald Trump’s third national security advisor, John Bolton, was hardly a surprise. The rift between the two men had been the subject of news pieces ...

On 3 January 2026 the US carried out what it called a “large-scale strike" against Venezuela, and President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were captured and flown to New York, where they appeared before ...

In December 2025, the Australian government announced “the biggest reform to the defence organisation in 50 years”. It relates to centralising arrangements for capability development (deciding what ...

Mick Ryan is a Senior Fellow for Military Studies in the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program. Mick spent 35 years in the Australian Army and had the honour of commanding soldiers at ...