Pete Hegseth seemed to be addressing a domestic audience and not those at the security forum in Singapore. Perhaps the ...

On the contrary, we will keep getting our defence policy completely wrong if we see defence spending as the price we pay for the US to defend us. We must see it instead as the investment we make in ...

The United States Studies Centre’s head of foreign policy and ­defence, Peter Dean, who co-authored the Albanese government’s ...

A warlord gets a local toughie across town to ally with him and agree to bring in his armed muscle — right next door to ...

Foreign ministry spokesman for Beijing, Lin Jian, accused Australia of “brazenly” spreading a narrative of China as a threat when Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles met with US, Japanese and ...

Our message is going to continue to be clear. It's deterrence and peace through strength, but it can't be reliance,' Hegseth ...