It’s all but certain that the government will make good on its white paper funding commitment in tomorrow’s Budget. With the fanfare of the submarine and frigate announcements still echoing, it would be political suicide …
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‘Tis, indeed, a wonderful time to be a Defencenik in Canberra. Tomorrow is Budget Day in the national capital. Yet Defence has nothing to fear and everything to expect. Defence is special. The budget future …
As I’ve been doing for the last few years (2013, 2014 and 2015), here’s my analysis of the US Air Force’s most recent budget plans for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. As the defence press …
Australia and Canada have similar defence problems. Both have a continental area to surveil and defend; and both front onto three oceans, while having to build their defence forces from the resources of relatively small …
If you thought the Australian budget was a difficult beast to wrangle, you won’t envy the Chinese government’s predicament. Deutsche Bank predicted earlier this year that Chinese central government revenue will grow by a mere …