Idle hands are the devil’s playthings…
The Syrian civil war (2011-), just as the civil war that wracked Iraq after the toppling of Saddam (2003-11), and… Read more >
The Holy Grail of Military Reform
The United States and many of its allies are in the process of dealing with the post-Afghanistan strategic environment. Soon… Read more >
Falcons hovering over the carcass of Syria?
The delivery of a battery of Patriot missiles and F-16 Falcon fighter planes to Jordan by the US (STRATFOR: 03/06/13)… Read more >
Erdogan’s Way
News from Turkey indicates that the Turkish people’s experiment with ‘soft political Islam’ as represented by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip… Read more >
Gamesmanship in Syria
With the USS Eisenhower moving closer to the Syrian coast, the whiff of an international military intervention in the Syrian… Read more >
Canberra, we have a problem…
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is currently participating in some 13 military missions around the world and has conducted four… Read more >
Afghanistan: the Green-on-Blue War
The increasing spate of so-called green (Afghan government forces) on blue (foreign ISAF forces) violence in Afghanistan is something that… Read more >
Damascus: that awful, sinking feeling…
The Alawites, Syria’s ruling minority, have arguably the most to loose should the international community continue to fully back the… Read more >
Red Dragon Rising…Again
Things must be getting bad in Australian foreign policy circles when the perennial bug-bear, Australia’s relations with China, gets yet… Read more >
Talking out of both sides of (one’s) mouth
During my time in the Middle East, I became familiar with a phrase used to describe duplicity – ‘talking out… Read more >