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

MIKE SCRAFTON. The dogs of war cry wolf: The post-pandemic China threat

MIKE SCRAFTON. Australia's strategic quandary: political leadership and the abandonment of strategy

MIKE SCRAFTON. Blinded by 'the science': COVID-19 and the authority of science in public policy

MIKE SCRAFTON. A tale of two Americas: Australias foreign policy choices post-pandemic

MIKE SCRAFTON. COVID-19 and preparing for global warming

MIKE SCRAFTON. Capability gaps: mean dogs and submarines

MIKE SCRAFTON. COVID-19: Dirty hands and political leadership in a crisis

MIKE SCRAFTON. Shades of herd immunity stalk COVID-19 government responses.

MIKE SCRAFTON. When to take the military option off the table

MIKE SCRAFTON. What do the Chinese think of the US-Australian Alliance?

MIKE SCRAFTON. Is the US a normal country?

MIKE SCRAFTON. The warning that wasn't on the submarines.

MIKE SCRAFTON. Traps, Trump and Thucydides

MIKE SCRAFTON. A critique of SEA1000 from the outside

MIKE SCRAFTON. Democracy and Ignorance-climate deniers and climate believers

MIKE SCRAFTON. Future Submarines and Future War

MIKE SCRAFTON. Mnuchin, Thunberg, Economics and Science

MIKE SCRAFTON. How good are Royal Commissions?

MIKE SCRAFTON. NATO, the Middle East and the policy vacuum

MIKE SCRAFTON. The re-election of Donald Trump

MIKE SCRAFTON. Crisis and the Transformation of Government Administration

MIKE SCRAFTON. Iran, the US, and Australia

MIKE SCRAFTON: President Trump and the world at the end of 2019

Uighurs and glass houses

MIKE SCRAFTON. Global warming - we're screwed!

MIKE SCRAFTON. Irish Reunification-Child of Brexit

MIKE SCRAFTON. It's not all about Brexit

MIKE SCRAFTON. The Speech Albanese should have given

MIKE SCRAFTON.But what about war?

MIKE SCRAFTON. The shallowness of Australia's strategic policy

MIKE SCRAFTON. The real basis of Morrison's foreign policy

MIKE SCRAFTON. The strategic significance of Abqaiq and Khurais

MIKE SCRAFTON. Morrison and the absence of justice

MIKE SCRAFTON. Abbott, more than an embarrassment

MIKE SCRAFTON. The Afghanistan failure

MIKE SCRAFTON. On the blindness of politicians

Hong Kong and the ghost of Tiananmen

Battles, campaigns, and wars

The conversation about China

MIKE SCRAFTON. The persistence of white supremacists in the US is the problem

MIKE SCRAFTON. Ministers and public servants

MIKE SCRAFTON. Im afraid of Americans

MIKE SCRAFTON. The real cost in How to Defend Australia.

MIKE SCRAFTON. The Chief of the Defence Force and political warfare

MIKE SCRAFTON. Strategy In A Bubble: ASPIs war plans

MIKE SCRAFTON. The new national security - protection from global warming

MIKE SCRAFTON. Unquantifiable strategic madness of war on Iran

MIKE SCRAFTON. IPBES and IPCC: Calamity cannot be averted

MIKE SCRAFTON. The rules-based international order; or a dead parrot.

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