{"id":19154,"date":"2015-03-20T14:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T03:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=19154"},"modified":"2015-03-26T12:34:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T01:34:47","slug":"aspi-suggests-20mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/aspi-suggests-20mar\/","title":{"rendered":"ASPI suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bibi<\/a><\/p>\n

Welcome back for another dose of defence and strategy links, this week coming to you from the ISCS\u2013RIS conference on India and the Indian Ocean<\/a> in Bhubaneswar, India’s ‘City of Temples’.<\/p>\n

Kicking off with the optics of the week, The Atlantic<\/em> has the goods with photo essays showing the devastation wrought on Vanuatu by Cyclone Pam<\/a>, and the push to retake the northern Iraqi town of Tikrit<\/a> from IS militants. And from Syria, there\u2019s this striking photo<\/a> of buses being stood vertically to shield against snipers in Aleppo.<\/p>\n

Hot on the heels of work done by CSIS\u2019 Maritime Transparency Initiative comes some new analysis of China\u2019s land reclamation and military construction efforts<\/a> on a handful of reefs and islands in the South China Sea. Over at East Asia Forum<\/em>, RSIS\u2019 Ristian Atriandi Supriyanto thinks that Indonesia should put some time into development activities on the Natuna Islands<\/a>\u2014starting with energy infrastructure\u2014as a way to counter China\u2019s maritime claim.<\/p>\n

The US unveiled a new maritime strategy<\/a> (PDF) last week, an update to its 2007 edition. Bryan McGrath and Bryan Clark muck in<\/a> at War on the Rock<\/em>s. The National Interest<\/em> and The Diplomat<\/em> also host reactions, here<\/a> and here<\/a>. And, of course, we\u2019ve offered views from Ben Schreer<\/a> and Sam Bateman<\/a>\u00a0on The Strategist.<\/em><\/p>\n

A new report<\/a> (PDF) from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute sees China take a place on the podium as the third largest arms exporter in the world. With their major arms exports rising 143% between 2010 and 2014, China has leapfrogged Germany, France, and the UK. Now accounting for 5% of global arms exports, China still trails well behind the contributions of the top two players: America at 31%, and Russia at 27%.<\/p>\n

Two pieces of IS-related analysis stood out this week. From RSIS in Singapore, Paul Hedges considers the [il]legitimacy of IS\u2019 Caliph<\/a>, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. And from CSIS in DC, Anthony Cordesman looks past the degradation and destruction of IS to the future stability of Iraq and Syria<\/a>\u2014the overriding strategic objective that\u2019ll require different prescriptions for each state.<\/p>\n

RUSI has a new paper<\/a> (PDF) out surveying the deployment of Russian troops to eastern Ukraine. With Moscow\u2019s deployed forces pretty much equal to all of Kiev\u2019s available combat forces, and rebel fighters (who\u2019re essentially under Russian control) numbering \u2018half the total of Russian troops\u2019, the figures don\u2019t look good for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Finally, in Israel, Bibi got back. Though the outcome surely had nothing to do with Netanyahu\u2019s bizarre election ads<\/a> and everything to do with Chuck Norris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Video<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you didn\u2019t catch it earlier in the week, Barack Obama has continued his \u2018new media\u2019 outreach, this time being interviewed by VICE News. Check out the video here<\/a>, as well as previous spots with Vox<\/a> and Buzzfeed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Catch up with Sarah Mendelson of the CSIS Human Rights Initiative as she talks about the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the future of Russia, and the rise of repression and decline of democracy worldwide. Listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Melburnians Michael Sloan and Kyle Sherer are behind Last Stop to Nowhere<\/em>, a great podcast that chronicles lesser-known stories from Australia\u2019s history. Here are two: \u2018Odd Wars<\/a>\u2019 looks at the contributions of Australian troops to the Emu War and conflicts in Sudan and Palestine; \u2018Charles Cousens and the Tokyo Rose<\/a>\u2019 tells the story of a popular 2GB presenter and later prisoner-of-war taken from internment in Burma to Radio Tokyo HQ to broadcast Japanese propaganda at allied troops. iTunes has the lot of \u2018em<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

The Perth USAsia Centre will host the Hon. Michael Kirby for a free public lecture<\/a> on 27 March covering his 2014 investigation into human rights in the DPRK.<\/p>\n

ASPI\u2019s Future Surface Fleet conference is on at the Hyatt Hotel Canberra from 30 March to 1 April. Be sure to get your tickets<\/a> before sales close this coming Monday 23 March.<\/p>\n

David Lang is an analyst at ASPI and an editor of ASPI\u2019s<\/em> blog<\/em> The Strategist. Edited image courtesy of Flickr user TLVshac<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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