Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners
Quotes of the Day:
“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
- Marshall McLuhan, “Culture Is Our Business”, 1970, p. 66
"All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions."
- John Stuart Mill
"Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind."
- Abraham Lincoln
1. Joint Leaders Statement on AUKUS
2. Gen Keane on Milley's phone calls with China: The media is taking this 'out of context'
3. Milley’s China Calls During Trump Defeat Were ‘Lawful,’ Conveyed Reassurance, Pentagon Says
4. Australia Will Get Nuclear-Powered Subs In New Partnership With US, UK
5. Out of Africa: The Strategic Mistake of US Disengagement from Somalia
6. How to Deter China From Invading Taiwan
7. The future of special operations may look a lot different than the GWOT aesthetic we’ve come to know
8. US needs to revamp its defence co-operation with Taiwan
9. Analysis | Murphy’s misfired claim that 8 out of 10 U.S. drones miss their target
10. Why China Loves America's Defense Budget Inaction
11. Taliban lionizes Haqqani commander who celebrated ties to Al Qaeda, held American hostage
12. ‘Extremely serious’: Japan says flotilla of gun-equipped Chinese ships appeared near Senkakus
13. Party Capital: A Blueprint for National Security Due Diligence on China — C4ADS
14. General promises US ‘surge’ against foreign cyberattacks
15. Working with the Devil? The Potential for U.S.-Taliban Cooperation Against the Islamic State in Afghanistan
16. How China Exports Authoritarianism
17. Why Australia's new defence pact with the US and Britain is so significant
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