Shaping the Future Australian Army
The Australian Army’s strategic paradigm since the end of World War II has been based on…
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When I worked with a team supporting Rear Admiral George Huchting, the head of the Aegis…
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One of the most amazing lines ever written in an American newspaper was just published in…
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Hugh White’s How to Defend Australia shows a master storyteller at work. It’s part of a…
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In Australia, the federal, state and territory governments have defined critical infrastructure as: ‘Those physical facilities,…
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In their assessment of the challenges facing UK defense policy and the rebuilding of UK forces,…
Read More »India and Australia in the Indo-Pacific
India has assumed far greater prominence in Australian strategic thinking in recent times, as a potential…
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Hugh White’s new book, How to defend Australia, has stirred up a hornet’s nest on the…
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The UK and Australia are both in the throes of significant force transformation. But unlike earlier…
Read More »President Trump Has Every Right to Challenge The DOD “Cloud” Contracting Process
On July 18 2019 Jeff Bezo’s highly ethically conflicted blog The Washington Post reported on President…
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