Central Asia Needs a Plan B for Transport and Trade
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has highlighted Central Asia’s need for reliable trade and transport routes to the…
Read More »Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century Authoritarian Powers
With the invasion of Ukraine and China’s alliance with Russia, the liberal democracies are confronting a…
Read More »Australia’s Nuclear Attack Submarine Decision
Across Australia there was a collective gasp as the Prime Minister announced that Australia’s new submarines…
Read More »The Ukraine Crisis: Highlighting the Role of the Flanks of NATO
With Putin’s sleight of hand efforts, he has swallowed up Belarus while understandingly Ukraine has been…
Read More »Looking Back and Looking Forward: The Case of Ukraine
My first visit to Ukraine was shortly after it became an independent state with the collapse…
Read More »Will Putin Now Go to War?
Putin’s talks with President Biden followed by a week’s worth of talks in Europe have produced…
Read More »Mobile Basing as a Strategic Capability: Continuing the Conversation
Recently, I started a series looking at the emergence of mobile basing as a strategic capability…
Read More »Australia’s Space Strategy: 2021
In November 2021. the Australian government released its roadmap to develop the Australian space industry. According…
Read More »Gray Zones or Limited War?
Western analysts have coined phrases like hybrid war and gray zones as a way to describe…
Read More »Preparing For The Worst : Towards A Hardening Of French Army
Just as the U.S. military has come to understand that the ‘’long wars’’ of Iraq and…
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