Jerry Hofhuis is an intern in the Lowy Institute's International Security Program.
- Indonesia's military is bolstering border security along the southern region of West Java, in part to address the 'smuggling of migrants to Australia'.
- An International Crisis Group report on Afghanistan argues there is a limited window in which to set stable conditions for the 2014 Afghan presidential election.
- Former US envoy to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker claims progress in the country since 2002 has been extraordinary.
- A British military officer provides an Australian perspective on the changing US Asian force posture in the most recent ADF Journal ( PDF p34). In the same edition, a cogent set of asylum seeker policy recommendations … from a Pakistani military officer.
- US Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter assures that when it comes to the pivot to Asia, the US is 'walking the walk'.
- An Israeli fighter shoots down an unidentified drone. Iranian military officials are quick to criticise the Israeli-US Iron Dome system.