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The “Fight Tonight: Exploiting Australia’s Strategic Advantage” seminar produced a remarkably coherent and candid body of analysis across all its presentations. Rather than a checklist of capabilities, what emerged was a serious examination of genuine advantages — geographic, human, technical, alliance-based, and industrial — and an equally serious interrogation of whether Au...

Australia’s “fight tonight” question has become urgent. Fight Tonight: Exploiting Australia’s Strategic Advantage distils the 23 April 2026 Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar, where practitioners, commanders, industry and allies examined what the ADF can actually deploy, sustain and adapt in the opening weeks of a major Indo‑Pacific conflict.

The report a...

The recent local and devolved elections point less to a settled new order than to a transitional phase in British politics, marked by fragmentation, territorial divergence, and growing strain on the first-past-the-post Westminster system. What emerged from the results was not the clean contour of a realigned electorate but something messier and more unsettling: a party landsc...

“Trustworthy AI” was the research focus of Dr. Jeannette Wing’s presentation at the United States Naval Academy’s 2022 Michelson Lecture. Dr. Wing serves as Executive Vice President for Resear...

At the Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar “Fight Tonight: Exploiting Australia’s Strategic Advantage,” Air Marshal Stephen Chappell, Chief of Air Force, delivered what was in many ways a master class in how a senior military leader thinks through the challenge of shaping a credible deterrent force in a period of sharpening strategic competition.

His remarks were n...