Cybersecurity

Australia’s new law delaying social‑media account access for under‑16s reflects growing concerns about youth mental health and digital well-being. The Albanese Government has framed the policy as protecting children “at a critical stage of their development” from platform design features and content that can harm their health and …

Western militaries must adapt to the evolving role of the private sector, leveraging commercial technologies and firms to gain a strategic advantage and redefine economic warfare in modern conflicts. “It’s the economy, stupid.” So said James Carville, an advisor to Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992, and many peacetime politicians …

Henry Sokolski The administration is courting serious risks to global stability by neglecting any strategy around nuclear proliferation. Although commentators have extensively critiqued President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, they’ve neglected what’s missing. Throughout the document’s 33 pages, there is no mention of nuclear extended deterrence and …

Alexander Langlois Pressure on Israel is the best way to keep the Lebanese ceasefire from unraveling. One year after the so-called “ceasefire” between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah began, Israel could be set to renew full-scale hostilities against the group, further confirming that the agreement is anything but a …

The UN has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology – the moment when the quantum story moved from spectacle to substance. Editors and investors have grown less interested in raw qubit tallies and more interested in where quantum delivers measurable value in energy, materials, …

Effrina Antessa In an increasingly connected world, conflict does not always manifest itself through the sound of gunfire. Instead, the most destructive threats now operate silently: data is stolen, public opinion is manipulated, and national economies are undermined without a single shot being fired. I believe that non-kinetic …

In 1925, power in Asia was visible: gunboats on rivers, foreign police in Chinese streets, tram boycotts you could photograph. In 2025, it’s programmable: licenses that renew on a clock, standards embedded in software, compliance that lives in dashboards. That is the most important change over the hundred …

Putri Mayang Rembulan The Houthi attack on merchant ships in the Red Sea shows that asymmetric strategies have become one of the most disruptive forces in international security, often more effective than conventional state military power. The operations of these non-state groups not only disrupt global trade routes …

Nyimas Khoirun Nisa In an era where nearly all activity has shifted to the digital space, terrorism has also evolved. Terrorists no longer need territory to establish training camps, ideological teachers, or secret meetings in the middle of the night. All they need now is an internet connection, …