The Folly That Is AUKUS
An inquiry the state would not hold
Theme archive
Musings on Empire and War
Imperial power, war, security, militarisation, violence, and the narratives that justify conflict.
The War That Cannot End
On the Productive Machinery of Permanent Conflict
Monsoon Before The Storm
The Gathering Pressures of a Multipolar World
When The Masters Stop Learning
In the early 1980s I found myself walking factory floors in a Japan many American executives still assumed was an industrial backwater.
United in Principle
The Lingering Death of an Empire on Paper
The Passport and the Psyche
Today I collected my new Australian passport from the embassy here in Bangkok.
When the Witness Stops Watching
The Fourth Estate and the Betrayal of Its Own Covenant
The Coherence of Catastrophe
Interrupting the Logic of Endless War
Steering by Yesterday's Stars
Five Blind Spots at the Centre of Indo-Pacific Strategic Analysis
Beyond the Blame Game
Ecosystems of Power and the Illusion of the Individual Leader
How Wars Grow Old Before They Die
Face, Fatigue, and the Art of Slowing Humanity's Urge to Fight
The Gas Nobody Noticed
The Chokepoint Nobody Watched - Until Now
The Conscription of Grief
What Is Lost When Moral Language Serves Power
The Trap of the Pessimists
Against Certainty: Burning Off The Fog
The Reconstruction Business
War, Debt, and Permanent Dependency
The Wrong Question
Answers We Find When We Ask The Wrong Questions
The Arithmetic of Grief
How Human Attention Actually Works
Same God. Same Logic
Beginning where the discomfort is greatest
Power evolving
The Disruption of Democracy from Techno-Feudalism
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