As this decade progresses, more and more learned Australians are concerned we are at greater risk of a military conflict in our region than at any time since the end of World War II.

A new Senior Enlisted capability is emerging with a burgeoning form of influence-based leadership that embraces diversity and that can rapidly mobilise a workforce.

The build-up of troops on Ukraine’s borders had been watched for months, and while the media and pundits debated whether it constituted a false threat or an invasion, the US was in no doubt.

Bringing Iran in from the cold would not only undercut a potential axis with China and Russia, it would allow the US to concentrate on its main game.

Australians need to rapidly reassess their China-Taiwan calculus, because as it stands we are overstating our global importance and understating realities. 

How did one of the Vietnam War’s largest offensives catch commanders off guard despite clear warnings? The story of the Easter Offensive of 1972.