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\"Travels<\/a>This week\u2019s reading picks include US grand strategy, India\u2019s Machiavelli, oversight in Afghanistan and China\u2019s two silk roads, also Jokowi\u2019s CNN interview, new podcasts and more.<\/p>\n

If America is to assure its future security and prosperity, we need a new grand strategy that harnesses its peoples\u2019 spirit, sense of optimism, and perseverance…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those words belong to William C. Martel, associate professor in International Security Studies at The Fletcher School,\u00a0who passed away on 12 January. The National Interest<\/em> has published the final chapter of his book<\/a>,\u00a0Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Need For an Effective American Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em>, on\u00a0the fundamental attributes of grand strategy and the role of alliances. It\u2019s a long but useful\u00a0read for students and practitioners of strategy.<\/p>\n

Is the Islamic State expanding into Libya and the Sinai? Aaron Zelin of Jihadology.net<\/em>\u00a0looks at the Islamic State’s model in a new Washington Post<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018In light of the stunning failure that the collapse of the Iraqi forces represents, the\u00a0last\u00a0<\/em>thing that the government ought to be doing is classifying the inputs and outputs regarding Afghan military training and assistance.\u2019 That\u2019s\u00a0from Adam Elkus<\/a> on the US\u2019 decision to classify data usually presented to office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction<\/a>\u00a0(SIGAR) for reporting and oversight purposes.<\/p>\n

In a new ISEAS report<\/a> (PDF), David Arase examines the implications for Southeast Asia of Xi Jinping\u2019s policies to restructure Eurasian economics with the development of two silk roads: Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.<\/p>\n

President Obama’s visit to India bore fruit in a number of areas of cooperation including on aircraft carrier technology. See here<\/a> for USNI\u2019s reporting on the agreement. For greater depth on US\u2013India relations, Carnegie Endowment\u2019s Ashley J. Tellis has a new report called Unity in Difference<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also on India, Akhilesh Pillalamarri looks at the country\u2019s answer to Machiavelli<\/a>, the ancient minister Chanakya whose work Arthashastra<\/em>\u00a0on power and the international system was described by Henry Kissinger as containing a realist vision long before The Prince<\/em> ever came into print. And if you’ve got a spare weekend (or two), you can find a translated version of all fifteen books online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This week marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The Altantic<\/em>\u2019s Cari Romm looks at why the results<\/a> of an infamous psychology study, which have been often used to explain the Holocaust and other atrocities, are now disputed by psychologists. In the 1960s Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram proved, the use of a machine that delivered electric shocks, that ordinary people would obey orders from authority figures<\/a>, even if they knew the shocks administered could kill the victim.<\/p>\n

In his latest East Asia Forum<\/em> post<\/a>, Peter Drysdale asks, \u2018If Abe wasn\u2019t exactly wowing the Japanese electorate with confidence in his ability to deliver his agenda last time round, has anything changed now the election is done and dusted?\u2019 Drysdale says\u00a0there are good and bad signs. On the other hand, writing for the National Bureau of Asian Research, Tom Cutler has a new essay on how US energy exports to Japan under the terms of the TPP could potentially strengthen the trade relations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ASPI\u2019s Lisa Sharland has a new report \u2018Building capacity for peace operations in response to diversified threats\u2019\u00a0here<\/a>. The report summarises discussions on the relationship between peacekeeping operations, terrorism and transnational organised crime, which took place during the Challenges Annual Forum 2014 in Beijing, last October.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s photography pick is a series of striking images<\/a>, taken in 1960 by then 22-year-old paratrooper James Speed Hensinger, that captures the unfolding of an assault by US troops on a Viet Cong sniper\u2019s position near Da Nang.<\/p>\n

Videos<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a 100 days since Joko Widodo stepped into his new role as Indonesia\u2019s president. CNN\u2019s Christiane Amanpour spends a day hanging out with Jokowi<\/a>, grilling him about his crackdown on corruption, his controversial police chief nomination and his view on illegal fishing.<\/p>\n

The Women in Defence & Security (WDSN) team have produced a video of their last event in which Professor Gillian Triggs and Dr Susan Harris-Rimmer discuss their experiences in promoting human rights and international law<\/a>, and how women can get ahead.<\/p>\n

Podcasts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week I recorded a CIMSEC Sea Control podcast with ISEAS\u2019s Malcolm Cook and ASPI\u2019s Ben Schreer on the implications of Japan\u2019s defence budget increases<\/a> on capability, tensions with China, and relations with the US, Australia and Southeast Asia (32mins).<\/p>\n

War on the Rocks\u2019 Ryan Evans sat down with CSIS\u2019 Mira-Rapp Hooper, the Hudson Institute\u2019s Bryan McGrath, CNA\u2019s RADM Mike McDevitt (ret), and CIMSEC\u2019s Scott Cheney-Peters to discuss Asian maritime security, territorial disputes and a rising China<\/a> (53mins).<\/p>\n

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

Canberra<\/span>: the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU, is hosting a war studies seminar by Dr Albert Palazzo on resource scarcity, climate change and the future character of war, Tuesday 10 February at 6pm. More details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sydney<\/span>: The Lowy Institute is hosting a talk by President and CEO of the International Crisis Group, Jean-Marie Gu\u00e9henno, on security and tectonic shifts in Asian geopolitics on Friday 20 February at 12.30pm. For more details, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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