Alliances are a holdover from nineteenth-century European geopolitics, kept alive by political pundits’ juvenile obsessions with strategy games.
Australia's Globalization Expert
Category: The National Interest
America’s aircraft carriers are no longer intended for use in naval warfare. They’re designed to give the President the power to take control of a substantial chunk of the surface of the Earth and put it to use in the national interest of the United States.
China’s rise and rearmament has introduced a security schizophrenia into Australian politics. This is what lawmakers can do to address their fears of a Beijing invasion.
If 1989 was the historical moment to squeeze the Soviet Union, then 2019 is the historical moment to squeeze China.