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The key to air superiority is estimating the shape and size of future threat, coupled with the development of an appropriate force structure to deal with it.
Executive Summary
The ability of the Australian Defence Force to maintain air superiority in our region to 2020 depends entirely on our assessment of threat…
In a Gallup poll of the Islamic world, only 27% of Indonesians held a favourable view of the United States. Eighty nine percent opposed the U.S. led war on terrorism, more than any other Muslim nation surveyed, including Iran and Saudi Arabia…
After Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s recent remarks at the U.N., during which he referred to President Bush as “the devil,” and then held up and recommended Noam Chomsky’s, “Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance” he told reporters, “The people of the United States should read this … instead of the watching Superman movies.”
And they are, for as of last Thursday afternoon, “Hegemony or Survival,” [published in 2003] leaped into the top 10 on Amazon, and it had been ranked 20,664 the day before.
Could this be the beginning of the birth pangs of a Third Awakening?..
The US will suffer a nuclear or biological attack within ten years. Other countries will suffer similar fates. How do we know this? Pretty simple really. Our enemies tell us repeatedly they wish to hurt us and try to do so frequently. Very shortly they will have the WMD tools to not just hurt us but destroy us…
Recently web logs, or blogs, have exploded in popularity and have come to occupy an increasingly important place in American politics. Given the disparity in resources and organization against other actors, their influence presents a puzzle…
It means we have rights. Rights that many have fought for and given their lives for. Unfortunately in current America there is, for the most part, two separate classes of citizenship, a bipartisanship if you will. You have the poor and then you have the wealthy…
Australia is surrounded by the greatest Muslim population on the planet. This includes Indonesia’s 180 million and other countries like Malaysia. Should we be worried about that?
The Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on a recent visit to Tehran stated his country was a friend of Iran…
Why would Iran want to start a fight? The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a true believer of a bloke called the Mahdi. Ahmadinejad and his mates have said many times they want to wipe Israel off the map, destroy America, bring about an Islamic world etc etc…
Developing an effective defensive strategy and force structure is entirely predicated on understanding near and possible long-term threats. Unlike the past, the acquisition cycle of materiel, training and subsequent deployment of new technologies and weapons systems is a long-term commitment, perhaps 30 years…
We are rapidly heading for all out war. One of three events will occur, any one of them is cataclysmic.
The U.S. and Australia will be embroiled in a conflict that will pitch Islam against the rest of the world. Today, just like the prelude to World War Two, we are witnessing the opening strokes…