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Editorial Topics:
- Managing the Cost of Australia’s Defence: Despite the Australian defence budget reaching a record high, there are still considerable challenges addressing capability gaps amid geopolitical tensions and rising costs. Story by Gordon Arthur.
- Prize Fighters Tussle at Exercise Pitch Black 2024: Exercise Pitch Black 2024 saw unprecedented international air force participation, with a focus on honing multi-force cooperation in increasingly complex scenarios. Gordon Arthur was there for AMR. Gordon Arthur.
- Power Hungry Warships: Tim Fish discusses how the critical demand for more power on warships is driving new integrated power systems that are crucial to future-proofing naval capabilities.
- Beasts of Burden: The need for ever increasing communications requirements for land forces spread over a wide area has surfaced the idea of UAV-based ‘data mules’. Dr. Thomas Withington explains.
- Departing From Standard Practice: AUKUS, Nuclear Power and Export Controls: Rueben Johnson examines the complexities and regulatory hurdles facing the AUKUS programme which is destined to deliver nuclear-powered submarines to Australia.
- Singapore Dialogues: China’s support for Russia in the Ukraine war reveals its growing strategic influence in Europe and underlines the growing global security challenges it is creating, as highlighted at the Shangri-La Dialogue. Rueben Johnson reports.
- Analyst Column: The China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is focusing on the three parallel pillars of ‘mechanisation, informatisation and intelligentisation’, as outlined in the ‘National Defense in the New Era’ white paper of 2019. Gordon Arthur explains.
