The despot and the diplomat
By Christopher R. Hill Back in 2005, when I was the United States’ lead negotiator at the six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program, I looked at the instructions I received for my first...
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National security wrap
By Christopher Dixon, Jessica Clarence, Amelia Meurant-Tompkinson and Melissa Liberatore The beat ‘911. Where’s your emergency?’ Apple wants to shorten the response times of emergency services. The iPhone’s next operating system will pinpoint the...
Sovereignty is the key to defence industry policy
By Graeme Dunk Sovereignty is now the buzzword of defence industry policy, applied liberally to whatever project is under discussion. The idea has been further entrenched in the defence lexicon following publication of the...
Rep. Wittman On KC-46: ‘Boeing – Get It Done. Just Get It Done.’ In The Loop Podcast
By Colin Clark With KC-46s stacking up on the apron, the Air Force and Boeing have been at an impasse for months over whether the service would accept delivery of the troubled tanker. Rep....
Order amid chaos: tracing the roots of Basilan’s recent outbreak of peace
By Alexander Douglas In April 2016, in Basilan, Islamic militants gathered to mount an attack on the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The attack they launched killed 18 soldiers and injured more than 50...
SWP: using incentives to lift recruiter performance
By Richard Curtain and Stephen Howes The Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP) continues to grow. Figures for this financial year to the end of April 2018 show 6,573 SWP visas have been approved. This compares...
Army Modernization Needs Experimental Force
By Doug Macgregor The Army says it’s learned its lessons from more than two decades of failed acquisition. Its Big Six will work. The service will build the weapons it needs to overmatch the...
Death of a terrorist leader
By Claude Rakisits Late last week a US drone killed Maulana Fazlullah, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban—known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)—in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province. This is a serious body blow to...
Time for better disaster management and risk reduction education
By Paul Barnes With Australia’s 2017–18 natural disaster season over, it’s timely to acknowledge the superlative capabilities of our emergency service agencies, planners and support staff, whether working full-time or volunteering, who were on-call...
National security in the Philippines under Duterte: pragmatic partnerships beyond the noise
By Peter Chalk In May 2016, Rodrigo Duterte, the long-term mayor of Davao City, won a resounding victory in the Philippines national presidential election. He has since set in train a highly populist agenda...
Korea: It’s the present versus the past
By Ron Huisken Once again we’re embarked on an endeavour to defuse the Korean peninsula as the perennial flashpoint in Asia. We’ve been here before—notably during the 2003–05 six-party talks—so we know most of...
In disasters, violence against women is the huge, often hidden story
By Sharman Stone After her son’s murder, Miriam* finally fled her village in Myanmar’s conflict-ravaged Rakhine State. Even as Miriam escaped, the few precious belongings she could grab were snatched from her, and she...
How Exactly Do You Establish a Space Force?
By Marina Koren, The Atlantic President Trump has directed his military advisers to create a sixth military branch devoted to the cosmos, but doing so may require an act of Congress. …read more From::...
How Exactly Do You Establish a Space Force?
By Marina Koren, The Atlantic President Trump has directed his military advisers to create a sixth military branch devoted to the cosmos, but doing so may require an act of Congress. …read more From::...
Getting it right with China
By Penny Wong The China relationship is both a complex and crucial one. Politically and culturally, China and Australia are very different countries, and in such complex relationships, differences of approach, objective and opinion...
The five-domains update
By Christopher Dixon, Jessica Clarence, Amelia Meurant-Tompkinson and Melissa Liberatore Sea state Australia is set to enhance its submarine capability through sonar upgrades to all six Collins-class boats. The $230 million contract with Thales...
Our infant information revolution
By Joseph S. Nye It is frequently said that we are experiencing an information revolution. But what does that mean, and where is the revolution taking us? Information revolutions are not new. In 1439,...
Trump Administration Warns Friends Against Russia Arms Deals
By Paul McLeary As some Gulf and Asian allies consider big purchases of Russia arms, the Senate is set to uphold a law signed by Trump that would slap sanctions on them for cozying...
The American Who Says He’s Been the Target of Five Air Strikes
By Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic A federal judge is allowing his suit to proceed, finding that his “interest in avoiding the erroneous deprivation of his life is uniquely compelling.” …read more From:: Government Executive...
The American Who Says He’s Been the Target of Five Air Strikes
By Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic A federal judge is allowing his suit to proceed, finding that his “interest in avoiding the erroneous deprivation of his life is uniquely compelling.” …read more From:: Government Executive...
My mother was lucky to survive giving birth to me in Papua New Guinea
By Olive Oa I was born in the small coastal village of Kivori, in Papua New Guinea’s Central Province. With no healthcare centre nearby, my mother gave birth to me at home, with the...