John Blackburn
Air Vice-Marshal John Blackburn AO (Retd) is a former Deputy Chief of the RAAF.
He is the Chair of the Institute for Integrated Economic Research – Australia, and an Executive Committee member of the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group.
John's recent articles
28 May 2023
The Defence Strategic Review Strategy vacuum
We now have a Defence Strategic Review. But where is the National Risk Assessment, the National Security Strategy, and the Plan? A failure to resource the DSR changes adequately could mean that our deployable military operational capability will in reality be less at the end of this decade than it is today.
18 December 2022
Is China Australia's biggest security threat?
No, its catastrophic climate change. Avoiding that threat needs co-operation with countries like China, not conflict. Australias challenge is to get our priorities right and be a constructive player in addressing the existential climate threat that all nations face.
6 September 2021
Climate change and politics as usual: A government missing in action
Successive governments' failure to act on climate change means it is now the greatest threat to Australian and global human security.