The American Change of Heart on Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) flooding the Syrian battlefield and spilling over into Iraq where it… Read more >
Battle of Exceptionalism in the South China Sea
Throughout the early part of the 21st Century, the world has been preoccupied by the rise of China and the… Read more >
Russia, Ukrainian separatists & Malaysian Flight MH717: Changing the tide of Russia’s resurgence?
Vladimir Putin’s stunning stratagem of capturing the former Russian province of Crimea (March 21, 2014) from the Ukraine, which caught… Read more >
To Know or Not to Know: Ukraine, Russia & the West
We in the West are not necessarily receiving an objective view of the current conflict. At what point do newspaper… Read more >
Royal Australian Navy – Turning Japanese? “I really think so…”
The latest controversy to rock the State of South Australia is the Abbott government’s broadcast to build the replacement for… Read more >
Putin and the Ukraine: The quintessential Russian chess master
Using the political turmoil in Ukraine and perceptions of Western weakness to his advantage, Putin hatched a plan designed to… Read more >
A never-ending cycle of blame
Just as Australia is bedding down the Snowden spying controversy (documents revealing that Australian intelligence agencies tapped the phones of… Read more >
Peace in our time?
The announcement by the Obama Administration that a deal had been hammered out with the Iranians over their nuclear program… Read more >
Shaking Hands with Clenched Fists II
A number of years ago (2002), my colleague at the University of Adelaide, Professor Purnendra Jain and I wrote a… Read more >
North Korea: Keep Watch and Carry On
North Korea’s current bellicosity should be no cause for alarm. Everything that we’ve seen and heard from Pyongyang has been… Read more >