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 >
Security and the Cyber-Realm
The recent cyber-attack on the New York Times has again raised the question of what to do about the destabilizing… Read more >
Australia goes to the polls…
Prime Minister Gillard’s decision to conduct an eight months long federal election campaign is either a bold move by an… 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 >
Border security: Realism vs. Utopianism
In a world of nation-states and borders, is it right for us to believe that national borders are inviolable? At… Read more >