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 ...

The recent US strikes in Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro have led some to celebrate what they see as the end of an authoritarian regime and others to condemn the operation as a ...

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 ...

Stephen Grenville's excellent column on the American critical reaction to Dan Wang's bestselling book Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, prompts me to recommend Wang's 2025 China letter, ...

Shyam Saran is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Chairman of India’s National Security Advisory Board. In 2015 he was the Telstra Distinguished International Fellow at the Lowy ...