HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Australia’s new Defence White Paper and associated policy papers provoke significant major power interest, largely because Australia is looking, for the first time, at forward projection of capability. But it faces enormous challenges in rebuilding its defense industrial capabilities.
SOVEREIGNTY
Has ASEAN and its allies left it too late to counter the PRC’s oceanic expansion?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Why the RedMed Region is Becoming Increasingly Central to the Emerging Global Strategic Framework
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Egypt has already made its move away from the United States, although many in Washington do not seem to even understand that the seismic shift has been made. Egypt is reviving economically and strategically, and promises to transform the Suez-Red Sea strategic maritime environment.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Asian strategic balance has transformed. Within this, Taipei is finally committing to major new submarine, surface warfare, and other programs to ensure it retains its options. This may provide the catalyst for other regional states to begin re-thinking their positions.
PERSONNEL
ASIA
Japan has the tools to transform its strategic position, from resource exploitation to nuclear weapons. To a significant degree, the matter is now very much in the hands of one man: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
RESOURCES
Napoleon said that an army marched on its stomach. But he lost most of his Grande Armée to disease, much of it the result of poor water and sanitation. The army marched on its stomach, but it was defeated by its water.