Asia
Iraq: The real intelligence failure...
...was not the failure to uncover certain facts, but a failure to consider alternative hypotheses. Here's Bush Administration National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley (my emphasis…
The Iraq Syndrome
One of the oddest parties I have ever attended was held at 'Ground Zero', the courtyard in the heart of the Pentagon so named because it was a key target for the Soviet nuclear…
Saddam a tyrant, but war was wrong
Tom Switzer is a Research Associate at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, and editor of Spectator Australia.
One can greatly admire Major General Molan, as…
India links: Indo-Pacific, Indian feminism, broadband, development, federalism and more
Danielle Rajendram is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's International Security Program whose work focuses on India and China-India relations.
National Security…
Whaling: Japan does conduct research
I thank Mr Watson for his response to my recent post. Unfortunately, space doesn't allow me to respond in kind to everything he has said, so in my final response I'll focus on the…
Reader ripostes: TNI and Bob Carr
Below, a comment from Jorge Bechara on Rodger Shanahan's Bob Carr's Selective Indignation. But first, Andrew Johnson:
I appreciate that Gary Hogan has expanded on his…
Cambodia: Disputes, delays and death
Hard on the heels of fresh evidence of disputes about the judicial reach of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia), has come the news of…
Commentary
A U.S. naval blockade of China?
In this article on The Diplomat's Flashpoints blog, Rory Medcalf explores how potential conflict between the United States and China might unfold.Rory Medcalf
Reader riposte: 60 Minutes in Baghdad
Andrew Farran writes:
The anecdotal observations by Major Gen (Retd) Jim Molan in his piece 60 Minutes goes to Baghdad cannot sugarcoat what by any reckoning was a disastrous,…
Burma's fractious polity: The price of democracy?
Andrew Selth is a Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute. The Rangoon street-scene photos below the fold are by the author.
It has often been said that one of the…