by Michael Shoebridge | Mar 3, 2026 | Featured, Policy
America’s approach to the world has changed fundamentally. The era of its failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is over, along with the big idea behind them. That was then Secretary of State Colin Powell’s famous line “You break it, you own it”, based on the...
by Peter Jennings | Jun 20, 2025 | AUKUS, Defence Budget, Policy
The coming week may be the most important yet in Donald Trump’s presidency. It will be the decisive moment for a US military strike on Iran’s deeply buried nuclear facilities. Or not: Trump may choose to hold fire. On that decision hangs the tenuous future of Iran’s...
by Peter Jennings | Jun 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Israel’s military strikes against Iran are broader than nuclear facilities, air defence and missile sites. Israel has also successfully targeted and killed potentially seven senior generals of the Iranian military and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps....
by Peter Jennings | Oct 18, 2024 | Policy
With Yahya Sinwar’s death, Israel is stronger, Hamas is on the way out, and Hezbollah and the Houthis with them. Iran is in deep trouble … but highly dangerous. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar didn’t find his death hiding in a tunnel. He was caught above ground...
by Peter Jennings | Oct 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
A year after the Hamas atrocities, put to one side the street theatre of protests and Labor’s confused talking points and ask: what really is happening in the Middle East? On October 7 last year Israel suffered the worst intelligence and defence failure since the...
