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,…
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…
Read More »The US and European Direct Defense: What Role for the US Army?
The return of the Russians to a position of directly threatening Europe is not a return…
Read More »The New USCG Arctic Strategy
The US has been for more than a decade, a reluctant Arctic power. We have written…
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