Group Captain Jason Begley is a Royal Australian Air Force officer currently undertaking a National Security Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy and Australian Command and Staff College, and holds Masters degrees from UNSW and the ANU. He is mid-way through a research PhD co-sponsored by the Air Force and the Sir Richard Williams Foundation, but is thinking of switching topics (again). Views expressed are his alone and do not reflect the opinion of the Royal Australian Air Force, the Department of Defence, or the Australian Government.