By giving the United States greater military access to Australia, AUKUS has changed the strategic geography of any future conflict with China – and may have increased both the likelihood of war and Australia’s chances of being drawn into it. (more…)
Albert Palazzo
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Political leaders need civics lessons first
Australia’s democratic problem is not simply poor civics knowledge among citizens, but a political class too willing to avoid scrutiny, resist transparency and govern behind closed doors. (more…)
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Planning to not lose: the Australian Army’s new philosophy of war
The Army and the wider ADF will not go forth and force the enemy to succumb to our will. That is no longer possible, as the succession of lost wars shows. Instead, our future lies in being a state whose objective is to maintain the status quo or, in other words, to not lose.