Defence and Security
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Admiral Prune: Defending Australia. Part 1 of 4: What’s going on?
In the Morrison Government’s attempt to frame a “khaki election”, we have had a flurry of big announcements recently – nuclear powered submarines, new tanks, a new east coast submarine base, more people for the ADF and west coast dockyard infrastructure. What’s really going on? Continue reading »
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Ukraine: A victory narrative will be hard to maintain for Europe and America
Wars end. The peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine will determine whether President Putin or President Biden achieved his policy aims in the war. It seems unlikely that America will be able call it a win. Continue reading »
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David Van Deusen: No love for Putin: No guns for Nazis in Ukraine
Ukraine in fact has a serious Nazi problem. Continue reading »
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Kathy Kelly: The people of Yemen suffer at the hands of the US, UAE and Saudi Arabia…377,000 dead
The United Nations estimated last fall that the Yemen death toll would top 377,000 people by the end of 2021. Compare that to the deaths in Ukraine! Our media shows no interest or concern. Continue reading »
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The Ukraine – a decisive transfer of the balance of power from west to east
The 2022 Russo-Ukraine is also a proxy war between Russia and the Western world. We should be prepared for a decisive transfer of the balance of power from West to East…The bulk of the fighting is in the Donbas where there are few or no Western journalists. Continue reading »
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War crimes and the traps in sanctions
Vladimir Putin would seem to fit the bill for war crimes in Ukraine. But what about the illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq? Continue reading »
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M K Bhadrakumar : Zelensky rubbishes Biden’s war on Russia
What was the need for all that happened in the period since mid-December when Russia transmitted to Washington its demands for security guarantees? This question will haunt US President Joe Biden long after he retires from public life. Continue reading »
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Western media hypocrisy in reporting from Ukraine
For eight years Ukraine’s military and ultra-nationalists militias have felt free to try to ravage the two Donbas hold-outs, beginning with the total destruction of a large modern airport of Donetsk. Continue reading »
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The tale of two airlines, Iranian Air IR 655 and Malaysian Air MH 17 and double standards
While in Iranian territorial waters, USS Vincennes fired two surface-to-air missiles to bring down the Iranian plane with the loss of all 290 on board on 3 July 1988. The captain and crew of the Vincennes were later awarded medals. Vice President George H W Bush insisted he would ‘never apologise for the United States Continue reading »
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Homicidal drives: US dreams of killing Putin
The US imperium will dispose of leaders and prominent figures it does not like, even if it fails along the way. Continue reading »
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Truth is the first victim in war
Don’t believe what you read in the mass media. It is also an instrument of war. Continue reading »
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ADF deserves better leadership in disasters, especially from politicians
The less than stellar task of deploying the ADF to Queensland and NSW floods this week brought to mind a much more difficult job of 48 years ago in Darwin. Continue reading »
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Ukraine – US Brzezinski’s ghost and the goading of the USSR
Back in 1998, in an interview with the French news magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, boasted how the US national security establishment had laid the groundwork for the eventual Russian invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. Continue reading »
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Ukraine and nuclear risks
Three overarching goals have informed the Asia Pacific Leadership Network’s (APLN) approach to nuclear threats since its inception a decade ago: the imperative to hold firm against proliferation, the matching importance of credible steps toward disarmament, and defusing geopolitical tensions that heighten nuclear risks. All three are at play in Ukraine. Continue reading »
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Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow? Probably not.
Ukraine has just been figuratively and metaphorically played to advance to the next stage of the big game – Taiwan. China is being goaded by the US but President Xi will be smarter than President Putin. Continue reading »
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Ukraine highlights our defence procurement shambles
With the Russian invasion in full swing and the collateral havoc of civilian casualties and mass evacuations before our eyes on TV it is premature to try to draw many firm conclusions about the longer term global implications of the Ukraine situation – let alone for Australia. But there are immediate lessons which should not Continue reading »
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The slide to war with Russia. Part 1 & 2…First posted on October 26, 2016
God Created war so the Americans could learn geography Continue reading »
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Australia’s strategic fundamentals at risk from Ukraine war
The big strategic question for Australia coming out of the Ukrainian war concerns the lessons China might draw and what impact that will have on US-China competition, and therefore Australia’s security. Continue reading »
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Ukraine, India, China and Australia: a Khaki election?
Prime Minister Morrison seems to want to fix in concrete what he says he and we should most fear—a Russia-China “alliance of autocracies”. He treats similar responses to the Ukraine crisis by China and by our fellow Quad member India very differently. Could the coming election be the reason? Continue reading »
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Failed diplomacy led to war in Ukraine. It could happen again over Taiwan as the US goads China
As the war wages on in Ukraine, our hearts go out to the innocent men. women and children who are killed, maimed or displaced by the war Continue reading »
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The Israeli kettle and the Russian pot
Israel has no right to criticize Russia. A country that has more than once acted exactly like Russia, going wild, has no right to criticize aggression and invasion. Continue reading »
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John Cleese – Alert levels in response to the Russian threat
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent Russian threats and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Continue reading »
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Russia’s Plan C..and Plan D in Ukraine and Putin’s future in Russia
As the Russo-Ukrainian War takes a darker turn it is important to emphasise this essential point. This is a war that Vladimir Putin cannot win, however long it lasts and however cruel his methods. Continue reading »
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To challenge Putin avoid Australian aggression
Scott Morrison frothing about Putin can be replaced by some acknowledgement of our part in a world order gone wrong. Continue reading »
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A national security yardstick on which the Coalition doesn’t outshine Labor
The use of national security for political advantage is a perilous business. Continue reading »
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There’s little understanding of Russian history in the mainstream media
What would the United States do if it had potentially hostile states threatening its borders, much as the Russians face the NATO military alliance? Continue reading »
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Putin may be executing NATO’s 1999 playbook, not Hitler’s from the 1930’s
The brutal reality is NATO played hardball, won in the short term but now finds itself at the receiving end as Putin decides it’s payback time. Continue reading »
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Deputy sheriffs, deluded diggers and ‘the dirty work of empire’.
Few peoples define themselves through their military history more stridently than Australians. The truth, though, is that our military history primarily is one of imperial subservience, self-delusion and denial. Continue reading »
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Can someone in government explain why we are buying tanks?
When did US generals become arbiters of Australia’s strategic policy like it’s some banana republic. Continue reading »
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Australian Defence policy is a shambles and an election issue
For nearly a decade Coalition governments have overseen defence policy. Now Defence policy is in need of serious reform. Continue reading »
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