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Sources familiar with the government’s defence strategic review said the army has been a particular focus for potential cuts compared with the navy and air force.

Momentum is growing for a common AUKUS submarine to be used across the three navies.

Polish and NATO investigators believe the weapon behind the blast was probably launched in Ukraine.

Executives from a German shipbuilder are keen to discuss plans for a small but fast fleet of warships. Others are likely to follow.

"I don't know if it's somehow a sign of greater transparency or why, but normally, defence steadfastly resist saying what options it's taking up to government," Marcus Hellyer of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute said. "It's quite unusual that they're flagging they are only taking one option to government before they've actually even done it."

Five months after assuming power, the Albanese Government handed down its first budget on Tuesday. By all reports, it was…

By Xin Ping BEIJING, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- More than a year has passed since the signing of AUKUS, a trilateral security pact between Australia, Britain and the U

Feeling cheated, many stakeholders found that the pact increasingly endangers, rather than promotes, regional peace and security.

Bombers, long-range strike missiles and large undersea unmanned systems could help Canberra until it has nuclear-powered attack submarines, an Australian and American security expert agreed Wednesday. “Bombers are a possibility,” said Marcus Hellyer of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, speaking at a Hudson Institute event. Mark Gunzinger, of the Mitchell Institute of Aerospace Studies at the […]

Two retired U.S. admirals and three former U.S. Navy civilian leaders are playing critical but secretive roles as paid advisers to the government of Australia during its negotiations to acquire top-secret nuclear submarine technology from the United States and Britain.