An Unstable Global Defense Marketplace
New threats, new alliances, new technologies: all challenge the US’ “golden age”.
New threats, new alliances, new technologies: all challenge the US’ “golden age”.
Perhaps the “experiment” in universal, forced literacy, has been a failure, an historical blip. Literacy is in retreat because of technology and because inquiring minds challenge leadership patterns. Yet intellectual capacity— signified by literacy— determines strategic success. What is to be done?
Significant improvements in the sophistication and general capabilities of South-East Asian nations, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, have relegated Australia’s historical strategic and miliary dominance of the region to a reduced significance.