Successful Crisis Leadership: Meeting the Challenge
We live in a world of crisis. Every day the headlines are riddled with one high…
Read More »Deterrence in the Pacific: The Chinese Nuclear Dimension
In my recent discussion with Dr. Paul Bracken, we focused on what is often the too…
Read More »Australia, China and Antarctica
In 2013, the Tasmanian government signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s State Oceanic Administration to provide support…
Read More »Joint Norwegian-German Submarine Acquisition
Norway and Germany will procure identical submarines together. A revised offer was received from ThyssenKrupp Marine…
Read More »Logistics and Autonomous Systems
The popular discussion on autonomy in warfare is constrained to either describing the advantages of introducing…
Read More »Harnessing the ADF’s Technological Strengths for Crisis Management
Australia has so far managed the Covid-19 pandemic as well as anywhere else on the planet,…
Read More »Lessons Learned from World War 2 Strategic Bombardment
Let us not be zealots. Let us not plunge thoughtlessly from the old and known to…
Read More »From Cold War to Covid War: The Role of Middle Powers
New Delhi. Scarcely had the embers of the euphemistically termed ‘’Trade War’’ between USA and China…
Read More »Shaping a Way Ahead in European Crisis Management: Leveraging the COVID-19 Crisis
When I was last in Denmark, I had a chance to talk with Hans Tino Hansen,…
Read More »Expanding Regional Defense Relations for Pacific Defense: The Case of Australia and Japan
As Australia confronts an increasingly unstable Indo-Pacific security environment, it is time for Canberra to carefully cultivate security relationships with a range…
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