May, 2017
The Australian Independent Media Network
What’s really going on?: The reasons why the US and North Korea won’t go to war over the Korean Peninsula
(modified for an Australian audience)
https://theaimn.com/whats-really-going-reasons-us-north-korea-wont-go-war-korean-peninsula/
E-International Relations
Winning Hostilities Without War: United States- North Korea Machinations
Federation University: Cultural Enquiry and Research Group
Presentation: ‘The Dragon is Swimming’: How China is following the West’s ‘model of expansionism’ in the South China Sea
A copy of the Powerpoint of my presentation can be downloaded here:
January, 2017
My latest article from December last year has been published in the Australian Herald http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/249922993
December, 2016
http://theaimn.com/war-china-ascending-powers-expansionism-use-force/
Modified for an Australian audience.
November, 2016
My article on the coming war with China, an historical perspective on powerful nation-states and how they wish to redefine their ‘place’ in the world – Britain in the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Japan in the early twentieth century; and the USA in the late-twentieth century; and now China in the twenty-first century. As published in E-IR
http://www.e-ir.info/2016/11/22/war-with-china-ascending-powers-expansionism-and-the-use-of-force/
July, 2016
My article on the Bastille Day terrorist attack in France, as published on the Australian Independent Media Network
War in a public place: The Bastille Day attack, the strategy and tactics of Insurgencies
http://theaimn.com/war-public-place-bastille-day-attack-strategy-tactics-insurgencies/
June, 2016
Blog comment re: Turkey
My latest article on the lease of the Port of Darwin to Chinese interests and the (possible) ramifications for Australia from a geo-strategic perspective, and as published by the Australian Independent Media Network
Where fools rush in: The Leasing of the Port of Darwin and the Rise of China
http://theaimn.com/?s=where+fools+rush+in
An article on the rise of China, observing the PRC’s move into Central Asia, and as published by E-International Relations
Beyond the Asia-Pacific: China’s Next Geo-Strategic ‘Stepping Stone’
http://www.e-ir.info/2016/06/04/beyond-the-asia-pacific-chinas-next-geo-strategic-stepping-stone/
Feb, 2016
An article published by The Australian Independent Media Network, detailing the thrust of Western society and the way in which there is now a reaction by the Chinese; and the increasing demands the USA will make on Australia in the Asia-Pacific region in order to ‘balance’ this state-of-affairs.
http://theaimn.com/the-road-to-perdition-australia-and-the-neoconservative-agenda/
Dec, 2015
This article is a comment on the rise of China in the Asia-Pacific region and the difficulty, in this case, Japan is having coming to terms with this factor – as did the British before them, as did the French before that, the Spanish prior to the French…the list goes on.
The article is entitled: ‘The Impact of Industrial Revolutions: China’s Rise and the Decline of Japan’ can be found at
The Australian Independent Media Network
‘Heads should roll’: An Historical Perspective on Terrorism for the Abbott Neoconservative Goverment
E-International Relations
‘Oil Then, Water Now’: Another Reason for War in the 21st Century?
E-International Relations
The Asia-Pacific Scramble and a ‘Larger Australia’
http://www.e-ir.info/2015/03/30/the-asia-pacific-scramble-and-a-larger-australia/
E-International Relations
The Australian Independent Media Network
Double Standards: The West and Terrorism
http://theaimn.com/double-standards-west-terrorism
The Australian Independent Media Network
2014
E-International Relations
Airpower Hopes: The West, Versus the Islamic State, and the Evolution of Warfare
The Australian Independent Media Network
http://theaimn.com/airpower-hopes-the-west-verses-the-islamic-state-and-the-evolution-of-warfare/
The International Relations and Security Network (Zurich)
The Sovereign Nation-State as a Contributor to Terrorism
http://isnblog.ethz.ch/terrorism-technology/the-sovereign-nation-state-as-a-contributor-to-terrorism
E-International Relations
The Sovereign Nation-State as a Contributor to Terrorism
http://www.e-ir.info/2014/10/25/the-sovereign-nation-state-as-a-contributor-to-terrorism/
E-International Relations
Australia-China and the Rise of Pax-Sino: Where to now?
http://www.e-ir.info/2014/09/21/australia-china-and-the-rise-of-pax-sino-where-to-now/
The Australian Independent Media Network
Australia-China and the Rise of Pax-Sino: Where to now?
http://theaimn.com/australia-china-rise-pax-sino-now/#comment-134284
But will China invade Australia?
http://theaimn.com/will-china-invade-australia/#comment-134304
Australia beckons India: more antagonism by the Abbott government toward China
http://theaimn.com/australia-beckons-india-antagonism-abbott-government-toward-china/
Greater Australia-Japan Military Ties: another dangerous step in the coming age of pax-Sino
What a State demands, what a citizen give and what Abbott and Hockey simply don’t understand
http://theaimn.com/state-demands-citizen-gives-abbott-hockey-simply-dont-understand/#comment-134309
People cost ‘too much’: the Abbott Government and Neo-liberalism
http://theaimn.com/people-cost-too-much-the-abbot-government-and-neoliberalism/#comment-134313
The Indonesia Spy scandal and Australia’s future in the region
http://theaimn.com/the-indonesia-spy-scandal-and-the-future-for-australia/
Newspapers:
2013
The Courier, Issues Hidden Beneath the Surface of Diplomacy, ‘Opinion,’ April 13
Click the scanned newspaper image for a larger ‘readable ‘copy or download the article here: scanned newspaper copy here or download the article here: Issues Hidden Beneath the Surface of Diplomacy
2013
The Courier, Action Needed on the UNSC, ‘Opinion,’ May 2
Click the scanned newspaper image for a larger readable copy or download the article here: scanned newspaper copy here or download the article here: Action Needed from the UNSC
Academic:
2011 Why winning a war is no longer necessary: Modern warfare and the United States of America through the prism of the wars of Vietnam and Iraq.
View my thesis at Federation University (University of Ballarat) and Australian Digital Theses here:
http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:4502
View my thesis online at Academia.com here (or access via the Federation University library link):
http://www.academia.edu/2446146
