Australia in the Indo-Pac Exercise: The South China Sea, Vietnam and the PLA
I recently sailed onboard the landing helicopter dock and Royal Australian Navy flagship HMAS Canberra from Vietnam to…
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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”…
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Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (1869-1955) was known during his lifetime as “Mr. Five Per Cent.” This was…
Read More »An Update on the Venezuelan Campaign
Recently, Norway provided an update on the Venezuelan talks. Norway says Venezuelan talks making progress In…
Read More »The Western Malaise and Rethinking Alliances
The geopolitical aspects of David Goodhart’s The road to somewhere have been raised by Paul Dibb. The changes taking…
Read More »China’s Arms Exports on the Rise
Beijing continues to build its stature as a global arms exporter, according to the Pentagon’s annual…
Read More »MBDA and Airbus Make Leadership Changes: Refocus on Defense and Preparing for Brexit
An Airbus appointment of Antoine Bouvier, chief executive of missile maker MBDA, as strategy chief can…
Read More »The Crisis in the Western Liberal Democracies and Its Strategic Consequences
At a time when the two revisionist powers, China and Russia, are of rising geopolitical concern,…
Read More »Breaking the (Recent) Paradigm
I was recently a panellist at the Williams Foundation’s #selfsustain seminar in which I discussed strategies…
Read More »The Next Phase of the Battle Against ISIS
As the vestiges of the fiercely defiant Islamic State (IS) are being rummaged by the American-led…
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