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The Historian of the Seminars: Watching Australian Airpower Cross Three Thresholds
I have been coming to Australia since 2014 to write the Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminars.…
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In my first AI White Paper, Theoretical AI Exists, Applied AI Is Now in Play: A…
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Read More »China’s Trade War Isn’t With Washington. It’s With Everyone
Most of the commentary on the current tariff battles still frames them as a bilateral contest,…
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Take the prestige and institutional weight of the Navy’s Top Gun schoolhouse, then strip away the…
Read More »Base Is a Noun, Hub Is a Verb: Rethinking Guam’s Strategic Function
For most of the postwar Pacific, “base” was the only word that mattered. A base was…
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Book Review
07/26/2026
John Blaxland's The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard (Cambridge University Press, 2014) is, on its surface, a work of institutional history. It covers 35 years from Gough Whitlam's election in 1972 to John Howard's defeat in 2007 and catalogues...
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