Richard's recent articles

21 September 2022
Australia and Southeast Asia: Australia needs a new plan?
At a time when Australia needs an innovative rethinking of its policies towards Southeast Asia, this will not be delivered by the recently announced Defence Strategic Review.

7 September 2021
Why the West lost in Afghanistan: too much nation building or not enough?
Now that Afghanistan is back in the hands of the Taliban and the West is in humiliating retreat the search for answers about what went wrong and who is to blame is gathering steam.