Essays & Reportage
24 April 2023
Newly opened and unexpectedly vulnerable, the Australian War Memorial faced its first onslaught in January 1936
National Affairs
14 March 2023
The AUKUS submarine announcement has immediately raised thorny questions about cost, timing and design
Correspondents
14 March 2023
Our correspondent casts a critical eye over an emerging German peace movement
Correspondents
22 February 2023
A new normal has taken root in a city at war
International
22 February 2023
Will the West’s delicate balancing act accidentally trigger a chain reaction?
National Affairs
6 February 2023
Australia’s fringe Russian nationalist movement has worrying international links
Books & Arts
23 November 2022
The author of Russia’s Road to War with Ukraine responds to Mark Edele’s review of his book
Books & Arts
22 November 2022
Two new books disagree about the origins of Russia’s war against Ukraine
Books & Arts
12 November 2022
Two new books show what Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war left in its wake
National Affairs
11 November 2022
While the Australian War Memorial lavishes $500 million on its controversial extension, wartime service records go undigitised
International
17 October 2022
A false equivalence is compromising reactions to the war among some on the left
Essays & Reportage
3 October 2022
It was “harder to get into Fleet Street than to rob the bank of England,” wrote journalist Lorraine Summ. But she went on to publish one of the Pacific war’s great scoops
Books & Arts
18 December 2021
The perceived threat posed by Europe’s postwar “Displaced Persons” helped shape today’s international refugee regime
From the archive
11 November 2021
A graveyard hints at the many people already mourning when the first world war broke out
Books & Arts
8 October 2021
Lockdown has been a chance to compare on-screen treatments of the former British PM, and a documentary about his friendship with director Alexander Korda
International
23 August 2021
If the past is any guide, failure in Afghanistan won’t end Washington’s military activism
International
18 August 2021
Will the chaotic withdrawal from another war zone finally change how the United States and Australia deal with conflict?
International
18 August 2021
Another round of foreign interference in Afghanistan has been dealt a thoroughly predictable blow
From the archive
13 August 2021
Does the West see what it wants to see in Afghanistan?
Books & Arts
5 June 2021
Beguiled by familiar photos, have we forgotten one of the first anti–Vietnam war groups?
Books & Arts
25 May 2021
Sean McMeekin’s new account of Stalin’s war will suit Vladimir Putin very well
Books & Arts
24 May 2021
Weapons inspector Rod Barton assigns to the CIA a large share of the blame for the invasion of Iraq
Books & Arts
17 May 2021
Why did Australians forget the battles of 1917?
Essays & Reportage
24 April 2021
A photograph in the Australian War Memorial sends our contributor on a journey to a Tasmania rent by war
Essays & Reportage
24 April 2021
Extract | Signals officer Doug Lush witnessed up close the disastrous impact of a strategic miscalculation
Correspondents
20 April 2021
A Jew in Nazi Germany, a communist in Robert Menzies’s Australia, an Australian in East Germany — the remarkable life of Walter Kaufmann
From the archive
16 April 2021
How did two very different leaders — Tony Blair and John Howard — come to join George W. Bush’s “march of folly”?
National Affairs
14 April 2021
With the war crimes unit getting to work, will Afghan victims be compensated and whistleblowers protected?
Books & Arts
5 March 2021
Books | Three exceptional women breached a male bastion of journalism during the Vietnam war
Books & Arts
14 December 2020
Television | The highs and occasional lows of Four Corners’ coverage of 2020