Malcolm Davis

Nov 12, 2024 | aspi.org.au | Malcolm Davis |Cathy Moloney

Please enable javascript to access the full functionality of this site news Stop the World: UK defence strategy, AUKUS and deterrence with General Sir Jim Hockenhull Stop the World: UK defence strategy, AUKUS and deterrence with General Sir Jim Hockenhull In this episode of Stop the World, ASPI’s Dr Malcolm Davis and Dr Cathy Moloney speak with special guest General Sir Jim Hockenhull, Commander of the United Kingdom’s Strategic Command. They discuss the global strategic outlook and the...

Nov 5, 2024 | aspistrategist.org.au | Malcolm Davis

Secure satellite communication is a key requirement for ADF ability to undertake joint and integrated operations in a multi-domain operational environment. Known as satcom, it forms the informational backplane and foundation of modern warfare. Without this critical space support, military forces in the air, sea and land domains are deaf, dumb and blind. They cannot fight.

Nov 5, 2024 | globalsecurityreview.com | Malcolm Davis |Joshua Stowell

Space is an operational domain that is highly contested and in a crisis could quickly become a warfighting environment. Space is “militarized” through the deployment of satellites to support a range of terrestrial military tasks. Both the Soviet Union and the United States developed anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon technologies during the Cold War, yet it is only much more recently that such counterspace technologies proliferated in the hands of adversary actors such as China and Russia.

Oct 20, 2024 | openforum.com.au | Alex Bristow |Malcolm Davis

The 17 October announcement that Australia would give 49 surplus M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine is welcome, regardless of quibbles over the timeliness of the decision. Australia’s domestic debate over the process for donating materiel to Ukraine is important, but it mustn’t distract Canberra from the larger strategic task of helping Kyiv to end the war on its terms, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s newly unveiled victory plan has brought back into focus.

Oct 19, 2024 | aspistrategist.org.au | Alex Bristow |Malcolm Davis

The 17 October announcement that Australia would give 49 surplus M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine is welcome, regardless of quibbles over the timeliness of the decision. Australia’s domestic debate over the process for donating materiel to Ukraine is important, but it mustn’t distract Canberra from the larger strategic task of helping Kyiv to end the war on its terms, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s newly unveiled victory plan has brought back into focus.