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As Australia’s naval focus moves north, so must missile reloading facilities
The Royal Australian Navy needs missile reloading facilities in the north of the country, most obviously at Darwin and Cairns. The southern ports where Australian warships now take on munitions are ...
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Game-planning national security and the PNG NRL team
Papua New Guinea’s entrance into the National Rugby League (NRL) is officially confirmed. Already, sports writers are excitedly pulling out their whiteboards to draw up potential rosters for the ...
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Taiwanese president Lai’s Pacific tour is more important than it looks
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s visit last week to three independent Pacific island states was more important than it ...
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Just look at the lights: Assad’s territory was growing poorer as opposition’s economy advanced
Explanation is in illumination. To understand why the regime of Bashar al-Assad fell so suddenly in Syria in the past week, ...
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Instability in Pacific politics? Yes, but it’s stable instability
Political instability in the Pacific isn’t significantly increasing. It just feels like it—with the recent dissolution of ...