Strategy Counsel

Last month, I provided a brief Twitter argument, in the context of the Star Wars universe, for the merits of the Empire in relation to its ...

This piece from The National Interest on the relationship between Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau is compelling reading. As a History u...

I had this opinion piece published in Melbourne's The Age newspaper last week. I have not blogged or tweeted all that much on Austral...

Sydney's Lindt Cafe siege began last Monday morning and concluded, tragically, in the early hours of Tuesday, with the deaths of barrist...

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) spent almost 13 years deployed in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, for the official purposes of defeating ...

This piece by Stratfor's Robert Kaplan is well worth your reading and makes many valid points, especially on what a 21st US hegemony wi...

I have been busy with my daily trade but look to return to blogging with more regularity as soon as I can. I have a Twitter account at whi...

One of my rare forays into Australian domestic politics here, where I consider the position of Malcolm Turnbull, the former Liberal leader....

Edward Luttwak has an, as usual, persuasive article in the New York Times warning President Obama about the hazards of involving the United...

This is well worth watching in full, if only because it shows just how limited was the knowledge in the senior echelons of the US Government...