
With Australia’s first HIMARS launchers being delivered last month it is timely to consider how long our stocks of missiles would last… ⬇️
Foreign Affairs Magazine has an insightful but challenging article ‘The Empty Arsenal of Democracy’ that really brings home the challenge of the downsized military industrial base of the West: “The

How should Australia respond to the new world disorder? ⬇️
Recently former Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull convened a ‘Sovereignty and Security‘ forum, bringing together around a hundred National Security and Defence experts including Beaten Zone Venture Partners advisor Mick Ryan,

TAKHACK 2025: When Defence Innovation Goes Hands-On
Beaten Zone Venture Partners is proud to launch TAKHACK 2025, a tactical innovation hackathon that will bring together technologists, veterans, creatives, and industry professionals to tackle real-world challenges using the ATAK/CivTAK

For too long Australia and the West assumed that our qualitative edge would overcome any quantitative advantage of our opponents. ⬇️
As Ukraine has shown, large scale war is not won by qualitative advantage. Russia has been able to meet and beat the West’s weapons through relentless innovation and adaption. Likewise