Eugene Doyle Eugene Doyle

Before it’s too late: reimagining New Zealand’s military future.

Just Defence, a Wellington-based defence policy group, is calling on the government to freeze spending on defence and urgently reassess New Zealand’s place in a rapidly changing world.  This comes as the Government has just announced a massive hike in defence spending as part of the 2025 Defence Capability Plan (DCP) – $12 billion over the next four years, including $9 billion of new money. 

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Eugene Doyle Eugene Doyle

Is Iran about to strike Israel?

Iran may be about to launch a proper missile strike on Israel for the first time ever - in retaliation for the attack on Tehran last month which killed Ismail Haniyeh. Israeli intelligence says an attack is likely to come within days.

The Jerusalem Post on 11 August quoted Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of the Iranian Parliament's National Security Commission, as saying, "Iran's aerial operations against Israel could last three to four days.”

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Eugene Doyle Eugene Doyle

Warning from the edge of the abyss

Geopolitical tensions are again rising to boiling point; the nuclear treaties have been abandoned, nuclear weapons are again in high production, and all the lessons learnt, the visceral fears felt in decades past have been lost. The US will start stationing long-range missiles in Germany from 2026, a massive escalation that Russia has promised to respond to. What’s next?

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