STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Test: How Washington Reacts Determines How the World Moves
And, in a unique period of change, the new US Administration is operating from old strategic perceptions, even as it adopts new technology and doctrine
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Australia Girds for Power Projection Independence
Australia is more ready to resist a PRC military thrust southward than it was to face the Japanese southward thrust in World War II. And the PRC’s capability today may not be as potent in the relative balance as Japan’s was in 1941.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The US and the World: In With the Old; Out with the New
Afghanistan
Beijing’s “Unavoidable” War: The 21st Century’s Total War Has Begun
The new form of “total war” which Beijing has begun is more comprehensive and amorphous than any strategic engagement seen thus far in history. And Beijing has learned from history: direct military engagement is, of necessity, a very secondary component. This is a war which Pres.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Climate: Changing Political, Strategic Traction?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Hong Kong's Protests Reflect the New Global Strategic Realities Challenging Beijing
Affairs in smaller geopolitical entities — such as Hong Kong and Dominica — show significant vulnerabilities in Beijing's apparently seamless rise to strategic power.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Australia’s Strategic Implosion Averted, But What’s Next?
Continuation of the Australian constitutional monarchy model was seen as a critical benchmark as to whether the country was moving toward a consolidation of its sovereignty orientation.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Terrorism and Social Schisms: Are There Lessons From the New Zealand Attack?
How the New Zealand Government and the media responded to a terrorist attack in Christchurch sheds light on how such incidents impact societies which are already divided between urbanism and nationalism.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | What Does Australia’s Impending Government Change Portend?
The damage the Labor policies would do to the value of the Australian dollar would further exacerbate the ability of Australia to pay for the massive foreign capital programs, particularly the F-35A and the French submarines.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR