By prioritising major conflict, the 2023 Defence Strategic Review leaves the ADF underprepared for the most certain national security challenge ahead: climate change.
Resolving complex ethical dilemmas based on sound judgment and pluralist logic is expected at this level. A balanced understanding of major ethical approaches will assist in both moral leadership and ethical decision making.
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Complicated ProblemsThe Country With No Clothes: We Must Improve Our Strategic Rhetoric - Part 2The so-called rules-based international order is not a system that constrains power, the author argues, but a persuasive myth that disguises how power actually works—and risks leaving Australia strategically naked when the illusion finally fails.
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Complicated ProblemsPerspectives – Case Study 1<30 min09/02/2026 -
Complicated ProblemsThe Country With No Clothes: We Must Improve Our Strategic Rhetoric - Part 1Australia’s strategic rhetoric is built on a comforting illusion—and unless we confront it honestly, we risk preparing for a world that no longer exists.
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Complicated ProblemsTo what extent is memetic warfare applicable to the Australian Defence Force?Humour, ideology, and influence collide in the digital battlespace—can the Australian Defence Force afford to ignore the weaponisation of memes?
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