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…
Read More »How Much Readiness is Enough?
One of Martin Van Creveld’s most contentious, and subsequently debated, themes of Supplying War related to the persistent…
Read More »Shaping a Way Ahead for an Australian National Defense Support Base
Other than times of clear national emergency, the Australian population does not perceive national security as…
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 »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,…
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