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The Effects of International Sanctions on Iran’s Military Spending: A Synthetic Control Analysis Defence and Peace Economics – Jul 21 Geoeconomics – the use of economic levers for strategic ends – is a reinvigorated topic in a time of strategic competition. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the effectiveness of sanctions for changing the political behaviour of targeted states, particularly due to the rise of grey-zone economic tactics. Here, Mohammad Reza Farzanegan investigates …
Military Responses to COVID-19, Emerging Trends in Global Civil-Military Engagements Review of International Studies – Jan 21 Militaries have a long history of participating in health initiatives both domestically and abroad. In this article, Fawzia Gibson-Fall maintains that the COVID-19 response is a pivotal moment in this continuum of military health engagements. She canvasses the roles that militaries have played in national responses to COVID-19 and identifies three emerging categories of engagement: …
The Geostrategic Relevance of the Black Sea in the Current Security Context Strategic Impact – Jan 21 This article provides an overview of the contemporary strategic significance of the Black Sea, a confined body of water with significant geopolitical complexity surrounding it. Bogdan Țuțuianu emphasises that the Black Sea has been a constant arena for increasing competition, expanding spheres of influences, deepening and perpetuating regional tensions, and destabilising actions. He highlights the lack of …
Thinking about How the ADF Recovers from the First Losses of War In war, mistakes are normal; errors are usual, information is seldom complete, often accurate, and frequently misleading. Success is won, not by personnel and materiel in prime condition, but by the debris of an organisation worn by the strain of campaign and shaken by the shock of battle. The objective is attained, in war, under conditions which often impose extreme disadvantages. It is in the light of these facts that the commander expects …
‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple’ The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde Urban warfare literature is a child of the ‘90s. Before then, it was a few lonely monographs considering how best to defend towns in the path of the Soviet juggernaut rolling across the plains of northern Europe. Even these orphan papers were easy to dismiss. Soviet doctrine emphasised the bypassing of urban areas, so Western imaginations could remain captured by visions of massive tank battles and deep penetration …
The content in this article is an extract of Spotlight Brief 5/21 . Military Modernisation in Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Strategic Context Defense and Security Analysis – May 21 In this article, Shang-su Wu seeks to explain the relationship between the Indo-Pacific security system and the military modernisation in South-East Asia. While seemingly self-evident, Wu finds this relationship is much more complicated due to the differing national security priorities of each nation, ranging from great …
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An Australian Approach In recent years, we have seen a substantial rise in measures undertaken by foreign state actors that could be considered foreign interference . There has also been a notable increase in online activity that is labelled as coordinated inauthentic behaviour . Both of these trends have led to the gradual adoption of the terms like Cyber-Enabled Foreign Influence and Interference (C-E FI/I) in Australia’s academic and security community lexicon. Such terms seeks to remove the ambiguity …
Executive Summary The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are seemingly stabilising, with global economies, including Australia’s, on the road to recovery. The ‘securitisation’ of diversifying and expanding threats ‘in the national interest’ might counterintuitively inhibit the development of the resilience needed from across all of Australia’s elements of national power. The Quarter 3 Strategic Assessment concludes that Army will face a planning challenge of ‘building back better’ via an expanding scope of …
