Brief

USSC Briefs are short-form pieces of research that provide timely and concise analysis of a specific policy issue, figure or current challenges.

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Defence Minister Richard Marles

The Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2023: The key to AUKUS?

Brief byAmy McDonnell

Allies and partners

Building Japan's counterstrike capability: Technical, temporal and political challenges

Brief byMasashi Murano

A fiber optic cable is pulled ashore from the cable-laying ship "Pleijel" at the entrance to the port of Sassnitz

Trade and economics

Linking up with business on undersea cables: How Australia, the United States and Japan can better cooperate with the private sector on cables in a more contested Indo-Pacific

Brief byHayley Channer

A People’s Liberation Army–Navy intelligence collection vessel, AGI-792 Haiwangxing, operating off the Australian north-west shelf during the May 2022 election campaign

Ambitiously grey: Pursuing an active Australian military approach in the grey-zone

Brief byThomas Lonergan

Daylight savers or night wasters? The case against permanent daylight saving time in the United States

Brief bySamuel Garrett

Allies and partners

Japan's defence spending: Drivers and headwinds

Brief by Yuki Tatsumi

Trade and economics

What does ‘economic security’ mean to Australia in 2024?

Brief byHayley Channer, Georgia Edmonstone

Evolving Japan-US command and control cooperation for forward denial

Brief byHirohito Ogi

Trade and economics

What options are on the table for IPEF?

Brief bySamuel Garrett

Full knowledge and concurrence: Key questions for US-Australia extended deterrence and escalation management consultations

Brief byKelsey Hartigan

Challenges to the US defence industrial base: Lessons for Australia

Brief byJohn Luddy

Australia’s role supporting democracies as a middle power

Brief byDr Michael J. Green, Victoria Cooper