Despite the global revolution in urbanisation now under way, many Western strategists and military specialists remain cautious about embracing urban warfare as a central mission. They have good reasons for such caution -- and just as many to overcome that reticence

The alibi of cultural kinship with the West that has facilitated so much of Australia’s strategic dependency must, in the decades ahead, become tempered by a much greater spirit of strategic independence—an independence facilitated by  an Asian geopolitical destiny

I do not know whether I have been more struck […]

Strategy studies the relationship between time, positions, means and different […]

While the West has abandoned its brand of post-9/11 counterinsurgency, our Islamist opponents continue to operate by the old rule book. As we now face the difficult task of crafting an alternative way of war against guerrillas and militia forces, history's lesson cannot be ignored

Given its dependence on oceanic trade and sea lines of communication, one might expect Australians — like their British and American cousins — to be natural seafarers. The peculiar trajectory of our national culture has put pay to that

A professional soldier is rarely a professional strategist. —B.H. Liddell […]

An Army requires a theory of an Army … There […]

Sun Tzu’s short work on ancient Chinese strategy, The Art […]