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 Central Importance of Strategic Military Alliances
With the current international security architecture in steep decline, and the threat of conventional regional wars…
Read More »Transformation and Ongoing Combat Innovation: The Key Role of the 0-5 Year Reshaping of the Combat Force
One of the key features of our approach to military transformation was and continues to be…
Read More »The Commandant’s Guidance for the USMC: Lessons to be Learned for Australia
The planning guidance issued by the new US Marine Corps commandant, General David Berger, is unusually…
Read More »Reshaping Perimeter Defense: A New Pacific Island Strategy
Ed Timperlake laid out some years ago how the Marines might spearhead an island leveraging counter…
Read More »China, Australia and the Australian Debate About Its Evolving Relationship
The comfortable Canberra consensus on how to handle China has boiled over. A set of simmering…
Read More »F-35 2.0: The Strategic Significance of Sustained Engagement
When I worked with a team supporting Rear Admiral George Huchting, the head of the Aegis…
Read More »21st Century Authoritarian Powers and the Reshaping of Warfare in the Contest for Global Leadership
In their assessment of the challenges facing UK defense policy and the rebuilding of UK forces,…
Read More »Leveraging Australian Geography in the Defense of Australia
The idea of the north of Australia being central to the new concept of the defence…
Read More »The New USMC Commandant Lays Down His Approach: Reshaping the Force for Full Spectrum Crisis Management
In my work with the Williams Foundation, the Australian Defence Force has spearheaded a public discussion…
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