Toilet Paper and Total War
The lessons that prepare defence forces and government institutions for crisis responses need not come from…
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Societies, governments, economies, the environment and the energy systems that underpin human existence are all undergoing…
Read More »The Australian Offshore Patrol Vessel: Shaping a Way Ahead for a “Continuous Shipbuilding” Approach
On March 10, 2020, I had the chance to visit CIVMEC and Luerseen at the Henderson…
Read More »Canadian Chief of Defence Staff Highlights Challenges and Key Tasks for a Way Ahead: March 2020
General Jonathan Vance, Chief of the Defence Staff and Chef d’état-major de la défense recently addressed the Ottawa…
Read More »He May Be Able to Build Cars and Rockets, But Combat Experience?: Putting Elon Musk’s Comments on Fighter Jets in Context
Elon Musk is a proven innovator and entrepreneur. He knows how to grab a headline, too.…
Read More »Will Turkey Acquire Nuclear Weapons from Pakistan?
In October 2019, there were reports that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his dissatisfaction that…
Read More »5G Systems and Strategic Choices
It is disappointing that the Brits are doing the wrong thing on 5G, having not exhausted other possibilities.…
Read More »China and the Global Medical Supply Chain: The Evolving Coronavirus Virus Case Study
The Coronavirus Virus and its proliferation globally is clearly a key threat and challenge. And it…
Read More »Crisis Management and the Return of Direct Defense in Europe
We have argued that rather than looking at the transition from the land wars as one…
Read More »The 5G Dynamic: The Security Challenge
The Australian government’s decision to ban ‘high-risk vendors’ from its 5G network build caused ripples not…
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