Expanding the Aperture of National Defense and Security Planning: The Australian Case
Forty years ago, Steve Jobs walked into a long concrete office building in Palo Alto, California. The building…
Read More »The Putin Approach
Mark Galeotti has written a primer on Putin. If one were to read only one book…
Read More »Facing Hurricane Bojo: EU’s Preparedness Dealing With Brexit
“Tis the season” and having watched last week’s turmoil in Westminster, we could not resist but…
Read More »India Receives First Rafale Fighter in France on Dussehra
New Delhi. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh formally received the first of the 36 Rafale fighter jets…
Read More »Putin and the West: Shaping the Putin Narrative
For Vladimir Putin, the West is a key part of Russia’s past, present and future. As…
Read More »An Update from the Chief of Navy’s Seapower Conference, October 2019
In this discussion with John Conway, Dr. Robbin Laird discusses the shaping of an integrated distributed…
Read More »Building a 21st Century Australian Navy: A Major Part of the Re-set of Australian Infrastructure for Defense and Security
Currently, I am attending the Chief of the Royal Australian Navy’s Seapower conference being held in…
Read More »An Indian View of Global Alliances
In an article by John Grady published by USNI News on October 1, 2019, the author…
Read More »Understanding Mr. Putin: The Operative in the Kremlin
Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy of the Brookings Institution have written an interesting assessment of the…
Read More »The Putin Narrative: Reviving the Russia Idea Across 11 Time Zones
Although the Obama Administration referred to Russia as a “regional power,” with 11 time zones reaching…
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