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Fault Lines – Putin’s Kurils trip, US’s carrier gap, China’s NZ espionage
Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actions and developments shaping th...
Aug 19, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The ‘Extinct Volcanoes’ Problem: Why Unit Strength Is Not Combat Power
More than a century ago, Aleksandr Svechin warned against mistaking formations that still existed on paper for units that retained real fighting power...
Aug 19, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Space Force Funding Could Be Record High, If Congress Agrees
The Administration is requesting $71 billion for the U.S. Space Force in FY2027, more than twice what it has now. An analysis by the Aerospace Corpora...
Aug 19, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Pentagon rebuffed repeated requests for Golden Dome brief: CBO
David Mosher, head of the Congressional Budget Office’s National Security Directorate, stressed that the watchdog office was tasked with estimating th...
Aug 19, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The view from South Korea on Trump scaling back joint military exercises
Seoul-based Atlantic Council experts weigh in on how US president’s decision to cut short military training is being viewed by the US ally. The post T...
Aug 19, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
An Australian gift of guns to PNG must not end up in the wrong hands
Before handing PNG thousands more rifles, Australia must prove the armouries meant to store them are secure.
Aug 19, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Middle powers are reshaping the Indo-Pacific, too
The contest between Washington and Beijing isn’t the whole story.
Aug 19, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
New Delhi’s Mecca Pact calculus
Pakistan reads the Mecca Pact as deterrence – India reads it as one more variable to manage.
Aug 19, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Contested Logistics and the “Last Unmanned Mile”
In a Pacific war, the U.S. military cannot assume uncontested access to its depots and supply lines for munitions, spare parts, food, water, and energ...
Aug 19, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Managed Instability: Why the Wars Against Iran and Ukraine Can Go On and On and On…
The Iran war is beginning to resemble the Ukraine war in one important way. Operationally, the wars themselves are still very different — Ukraine is a...
Aug 19, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Proving the Negative: Three Warnings from Arms Control for the Age of AI
In early 1963, a single number characterized the difference in the positions of the United States and the Soviet Union on a comprehensive nuclear test...
Aug 19, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Indonesia’s China exercise was a judgement failure, not an alignment shift
News about an Indonesian frigate exercising with a Chinese warship 130 to 150 km east of Taiwan was always going to raise eyebrows. The exercise last ...
Aug 19, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail