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\"Edge<\/a>Welcome back for the second 2015 round-up of new reports and recommended links.<\/p>\n

Not to be outdone by the Army, the US Navy is now looking at Iron Man suits aka military exoskeletons<\/a> (like the ones featured in the 2014 movie Edge of Tomorrow<\/em><\/a>). To read more on the issue, check out a new CNAS report, \u2018Between Iron Man and Aqua Man\u2019<\/a>, by Andrew Herr and Scott Cheney-Peters that gives a brief history of the exoskeleton before delving into its potential for maritime uses including HADR and amphibious ops scenarios.<\/p>\n

While the Paris attacks dominated headlines last week, Boko Haram launched an attack on towns in Nigeria\u2019s northeast in early January and was reported<\/a> to have carried out \u2018indiscriminate killing\u2019. While the government and humanitarian organisations dispute death toll figures (which range from 150 to 2,000), Amnesty International has resorted to \u2018before and after\u2019 satellite images to show clearly the extent damage inflicted on the towns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our colleagues at NBR have produced ’15 for 2015: forecasts for the Asia-Pacific’<\/a>\u201415 essays that highlight things to watch in the year ahead, including what the Ukraine crisis means for Asia<\/a>, Xi Jinping\u2019s new foreign policy<\/a>, changes to the global energy landscape<\/a>, and cyber insecurity<\/a>. See here<\/a> for the full list of essays, all of which can be read online or downloaded for free.<\/p>\n

Another forecast read is Vijay Sakhuja\u2019s new CIMSEC piece that looks at maritime challenges in the Indian Ocean for 2015<\/a>, which kicks off with analysis on the Indian Ocean Rim Association\u2019s change of chair from Australia to Indonesia.<\/p>\n

Sticking with the Asia Pacific, two pieces on defence budgets: the first is on Japan\u2019s newly announced budget increase to US$42bn, with funds going towards new amphibious vehicles, surveillance aircraft and F-35 fighters. For more, see this VOA article for analysis on what this means for relations with China<\/a> and coverage in The Diplomat<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and at the CATO Institute<\/em> blog<\/a>. The second from CogistAsia<\/em> looks at the shift in Malaysia\u2019s national security focus in the 2015 defence budget<\/a> towards its eastern flank of Sabah which shares a porous maritime border with the Philippines.<\/p>\n

Russia plans to build 10 more Arctic airfields in addition to the existing four by this year\u2019s end, according to IHS Jane\u2019s Defence Weekly<\/em><\/a>. This follows news in December that Russia\u2019s new military command centre in the Arctic<\/a> had become operational, which is part of an overall trend to exploit the new trade routes and potential oil reserves that melting ice have provided. For greater detail on Russia\u2019s Arctic strategy, read this SIPRI report from September 2014<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n

Turning to domestic capability, blogger Gregor Ferguson over at Rumour Control<\/em> has a post on Australia\u2019s defence industry<\/a> which distills insights from his research on the projects that developed the Vickers Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane aircrafts into 12 lessons. One of those is \u2018A group of people in overalls and a factory building with some machinery inside it do not an industry capability make unless and until they embody the technical, design and management skills and equipment necessary to design, develop and manufacture the product (or service) the market requires.\u2019 Keep reading here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On veterans\u2019 issues, a magnetic resonance therapy (MRT) technique which \u2018zaps\u2019 the brains of veterans with PTSD appears to be working<\/a>. Although unproven in the case of PTSD, the procedure has also been used for those with Alzheimer\u2019s, anxiety, addiction and tinnitus, and works by \u2018realign[ing] and synchroniz[ing] the firing of neurons in each patient\u2019s brain depending on the condition\u2019. For more on the story, keep reading here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two photoessays from around the world this week. In the first, BBC Indonesia<\/em> shows powerful images of students in Peshawar returning to school<\/a> after December\u2019s shooting in which 133 students were killed. The second from We Are The Mighty<\/em> showcases what it\u2019s like to live on a US Navy nuclear submarine<\/a>. Check out how submarines cook up a few snags on the barbie<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monash University\u2019s Andrew Zammit spoke to Lowy\u2019s Sam Roggeveen this week on ISIS and al Qaeda involvement in the attacks in Paris last week<\/a>, in which Zammit provides a bit of background on networks operating in Western countries and the nature of extremist violence (7mins).<\/p>\n

CSIS\u2019 blog CogitAsia has launched a new podcast series: in episode one<\/a>, host Colm Quinn discusses key news stories in Asia including the impact of the AirAsia crash and MH370\u2019s disappearance on Southeast Asia\u2019s air travel infrastructure, and the US rebalance (31mins).<\/p>\n

Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canberra: Don\u2019t forget, the results of the\u00a0Global Go To Think Tank Index compiled annually by the University of Pennsylvania<\/a>\u00a0will be released on Friday 23 January at the AIIA\u2019s national offices in Canberra<\/a>. The event is co-hosted by AIIA, ASPI and the ANU\u2019s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. For more info and registration, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Natalie Sambhi<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is an analyst at ASPI and managing editor of\u00a0<\/em>The Strategist. Image courtesy of Flickr user Chris<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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