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A public health crisis like COVID-19 requires collective action, discipline and endurance in both communication and community action. This will be incredibly difficult in an age of social media and the growing ‘weaponisation’...
With outbreaks in the ranks and resources directed home, America’s military commitments will be challenged.
Anyone trying to predict the precise contours of the geopolitical landscape in the wake of the coronavirus crisis would do well to remember the warnings of the Italian poet Dante. In the 20th...
In an increasingly contested Indo-Pacific, the United States, Australia and their regional allies and partners face a myriad of strategic challenges that cut across every level of the competitive space. Driven by China’s...
USSC director of foreign policy and defence Ashley Townshend is quoted in this article published by Forbes Japan discussing the USSC report Averting Crisis and its recommendations for regional security cooperation between the...
With the COVID-19 disease sweeping the world, a global race is underway to develop therapies to help alleviate the illness, but more importantly, a vaccine to cure it. Amidst the crisis, the Defense...
USSC non-resident senior research fellow James Curran is quoted in this article by The Australian's Paul Kelly.
This Defence Connect article refers to research published by USSC in 2019.
