AUSTRALIA is not now at war at home or abroad. Greens senator Lydia Thorpe insists Australia has been at war for 200 years, but she talks big and waves a small stick. Community division as Thorpe imagines is alien to the overwhelming majority of...
The obscene business which is war has many rules. Command responsibility, also now called the Yamashita Principle, is that obligation of all commanders to ensure their troops fight within those rules. Failure to do so is considered an omission mode of individual...
RUSSIA’S Kerch bridge linking it with what most regard as unlawfully occupied Crimea was allegorical of the strengths and weaknesses of Australia’s strategic defences. The air-sea gap providing physical separation for continental Australia from southeast Asia and the...