Communication Disruption Attacks in a Nuclear Context
The spread of nuclear weapons to second-tier countries (North Korea, Pakistan, Israel), and the modernization of…
Read More »The Challenge of Shaping the Intellectual Capital for National Resilience: Building a Collaborative Generational Knowledge Focus Based Effort
During my visit earlier this year to Australia, the Williams Foundation seminar focused upon the sustainability…
Read More »Maritime Trade Off-Shoring in Australia: How to Recover Sufficient Sovereignty for Crisis Management?
In the competition between the liberal democracies and the rising tide of 21st century authoritarians, the…
Read More »Saudis and the Drone Oil Strikes
TEL AVIV: Saudi Arabia suffered “a total and embarrassing (intelligence) failure” and had no idea Iran was…
Read More »The Challenge of Maritime Trade and Security in Australia
In this interview by John Conway of ADBR of John Blackburn, the significance of broadening the…
Read More »The Rebuild of Conventional Capabilities for Full-Spectrum Crisis Management
I will be presenting later this month in Bahrain at their BIDEC 2019 conference. My presentation…
Read More »France, Turkey and the Questions of Military Arms Sales
Paris – A French partial arms embargo against Turkey reflects a relative lack of business interest,…
Read More »Joint Heads of Pacific Security event in Brisbane, Australia
10 October 2019 Delegates from Pacific Island nations’ security agencies came together for the inaugural Joint…
Read More »Re-Configuring the US Military for COIN and the Global War on Terrorism
In my lifetime, the U.S. military has gone through three major phases of development. The first…
Read More »France and Australia: The Odd Couple In Quest of a Strengthened Partnership
France and Australia are a long way off from one another geographically, and frankly, culturally. But…
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