Publications

Afghanistan Seems Fixed on a Return to Chaos

March 15, 2012 U.S. News and World Report

Talk to civilian and military officials who've recently served in Afghanistan and you will be hard-pressed to find a single optimistic assessment of our current strategy there.

Retire the ‘reset’ with Russia: Putin’s nation doesn’t merit superpower treatment, but normal relations

March 14, 2012 E. Wayne Merry Washington Times

On March 9, following Russia’s presidential election, President Obama telephoned President-elect Vladimir Putin to re-establish contact with someone he once publicly described as a man of the past but who will run Russia for the remainder of Mr. Obama’s presidency. Mr. Putin genuinely believes Washington orchestrates Russia’s domestic opposition in order to remove him from power and thereby weaken Russia. That’s certainly not an ideal basis for bilateral cooperation.

Do Downer and Brumby support Huawei in Iran?

March 14, 2012 Avi Jorisch The Australian

Huawei Technologies has an aggressive plan to become the No 1 provider of telecommunications services, Down Under and across the globe, in less than five years.

Unfortunately, in the recent past, this Asian giant has played a key role in helping the Iranian government, the world's most dangerous state sponsor of terror, to monitor, track, and kill those who oppose it.