In this episode; Marcus Hellyer talks to guests from the US Studies Centre on their recently released paper, 'Averting Crisis: American Strategy, Military Spending and Collective Defence in the Indo-Pacific' (16:45).

Two of our grumpy strategists, Marcus and Malcolm discuss the recent announcement of Australian support for operations in the Straits of Hormuz (9:05)

Tom and Elise from our Cyber team discuss their preliminary findings of the recently released Twitter and Facebook data dumps of Chinese bot driven accounts (1:25).

Mentioned in this episode:

China’s information warfare darkens the doorstep of Twitter and Facebook: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-information-warfare-darkens-the-doorstep-of-twitter-and-facebook/

ICPC initial findings:

https://twitter.com/elisethoma5/status/1163949710832328704

https://twitter.com/JakeWallis_ASPI/status/1163755593305210881

Averting Crisis: American strategy, military spending and collective defence in the Indo-Pacific:

https://www.ussc.edu.au/analysis/averting-crisis-american-strategy-military-spending-and-collective-defence-in-the-indo-pacific

Back to the Middle East, but at what cost?: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/back-to-the-middle-east-but-at-what-cost/

Speakers:

Marcus Hellyer: https://www.aspi.org.au/bio/marcus-hellyer

Ashley Townshend: https://www.ussc.edu.au/experts/ashley-townshend

Brendan Thomas-Noone: https://www.ussc.edu.au/experts/brendan-thomas-noone

Matilda Steward: https://www.ussc.edu.au/experts/matilda-steward

Malcolm Davis: https://www.aspi.org.au/bio/malcolm-davis

Tom Uren: https://www.aspi.org.au/bio/tom-uren

Elise Thomas: https://www.aspi.org.au/bio/elise-thomas

Music: "Scuba" by Nul Tiel Records via the Free Music Archive.