Mike Scrafton

Mike Scrafton was a Deputy Secretary in the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment, senior Defence executive, CEO of a state statutory body, and chief of staff and ministerial adviser to the minister for defence.

Mike's recent articles

The enemy within the gates-the key to American politics

Australia's strategic conundrum-Is America declining?

Biden's hopes fall short in G7 communique

Behaviour, the pandemic, and climate change

Not the war over Taiwan again!

Once was a hegemon: Australia and the decline of the US

Warriors, war and Mike Pezzullo's ANZAC Day message

Capitalism, COVID, and Climate

Capitalism, COVID, and Climate

Democracy militant: strategic autonomy and Europe's lessons for Australia

A Minneapolis community and systematic racism

Shifting national interests put Bidens alliance strategy in doubt

Radical people, not technology, are needed for a sustainable revolution

The persistence of American authoritarianism should worry Australia

The persistence of American authoritarianism should worry Australia

Competition for technological primacy between the great powers will draw in ASEAN

Taiwan: a 'wicked' strategic problem for Australia

Is Trump's 1776 Commission report an extremist manifesto?

What should Australia want from a Biden National Security Strategy? Avoiding war in Asia

Preparing for a 3C warmer future: the ideological shift and institutional response Australia will need.

The deceit of deterrence; a bankrupt strategic justification for defence expenditure

China-Australia relations: it's not as simple as ABC

ASPI resorts to bullying to deter strategic debate on China

ASPIs guide to submarines leaves the biggest strategic questions unanswered

Exaggerated threats and contrived military strategies: a response to Jon Stanford

No power in the Lowy Asia Power Index 2020

IMF on global warming: impractical, naive and important

The strategic aspect of human rights: a tool of hegemony

The US role in the world: a new normal

The bathtub is nearly full: Australia's extraordinary energy plan

Will Trump's rejection of history divide America?

Scientists and capitalists agree on climate. When will governments act?

The UN at 75: a real declaration of intent, or multilateral virtue signalling?

The strategic mirror: the Pentagon's China report reveals converging power and strategy

Australia's policies towards China have little support in the region.

A bigger canvas: Russia, China and Australia's strategic policy

The current signs are ominous, and Australia is possibly stumbling blindly towards war.

Cancel culture, Nick Cave and the Harper's Letter: a moan from the Ivory Tower or call to the liberal battlements?

Australian strategic policy: why we need a robust public debate

AUSMIN 2020: confirmation of Australia's abandonment of strategic autonomy?

Confronting global warming: do democracies have the expertise?

The Rationale for the 2020 Force Structure Plan: A 2040 War with China?

The 2020 Defence Strategic Update: Finding coexistence with China

Race is not real: Its time to stop acting as though it is.

The Australia-India Strategic Partnership: Shared values mask the real strategic purpose

Sovereignty and Self-determination: The wider implications of Israel and the West Bank

MIKE SCRAFTON. The Deep State conspiracy theory

MIKE SCRAFTON. Historical amnesia: Great power behaviour and criticism of China

MIKE SCRAFTON. A blinkered view: China in the Antarctic

MIKE SCRAFTON. The harder reality of humanity's road to the future

MIKE SCRAFTON. Regulation, tariffs and reform of supply chains.

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