In this episode of Policy, Guns and Money:

• 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
• Two of our grumpy strategists, Marcus Hellyer and Malcolm Davis discuss the recent announcement of Australian support for operations in the Straits of Hormuz
• 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.

Mentioned in this episode:

• China’s information warfare darkens the doorstep of Twitter and Facebook
• ICPC initial findings from Elise Thomas and Jake Wallis
• Averting Crisis: American strategy, military spending and collective defence in the Indo-Pacific
• Back to the Middle East, but at what cost?