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\"President<\/a>To get you across the week\u2019s big stories in security and defence, here’s ASPI Suggests with new reports, videos and podcasts.<\/p>\n

Following Hillary Clinton\u2019s announcement of her run for the White House, Strategist<\/em> editor David Lang and I wrote<\/a> on Monday that, if she becomes president, expect a rebooted version of the Asia Pacific pivot. Brad Glosserman and David Santoro hammer home the need for American attention in the Asia Pacific in an important piece<\/a> in The National Interest<\/em>. They outline what allies should<\/em> expect from Washington but they also warn, don\u2019t expect the US protection to be a silver bullet every time.<\/p>\n

For the military\u2019s part, Stephen Liszewski writes on Defense One<\/em> how the US armed forces can help reinforce the pivot to Asia<\/a>. He expands on the recommendations made in a new Council on Foreign Relations report<\/a> by Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis on revising US grand strategy toward China. For a quick rundown of their arguments, read their feature article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also this week, the US Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) released a new report and videos<\/a> on the PLA-N\u2019s new capabilities and missions for the 21st century. As Andrew Erikson of the US Naval War College points out<\/a>, the report rightfully covers the Chinese Coast Guard which serves as \u2018China\u2019s Second Navy\u2019 (just ask the Philippines). Keeping reading his War On The Rocks<\/em> piece<\/a> for the highlights of the ONI assessment.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, the Afghan Taliban popped back into frontpage news with the release of an official biography of their elusive, one-eyed leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar on their website. According to the BBC<\/a>, he\u2019s got a \u2018special\u2019 sense of humour and picks the humble RPG-7 as his weapon-of-choice. While some analysts see the biography as an attempt to challenge Islamic State\u2019s growing influence, Michael Kugelman asks a more poignant question, does Mullah Omar still matter<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Shifting to India, Barack Obama keeps the bromance alive with Narendra Modi, penning a short and sweet assessment<\/a> of the Indian leader for TIME magazine online:<\/p>\n

As a boy, Narendra Modi helped his father sell tea to support their family. Today, he\u2019s the leader of the world\u2019s largest democracy, and his life story\u2014from poverty to Prime Minister\u2014reflects the dynamism and potential of India\u2019s rise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Both Quartz<\/a><\/em> and the Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em> riff on the Obama\u2013Modi bromance theme and what it means for US\u2013India relations.<\/p>\n

For more TIME leader profiles, see Paul Wolfowitz on Indonesia\u2019s Jokowi<\/a>, K-Rudd on China\u2019s Xi<\/a>, and US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on his colleague<\/a>, the \u2018Notorious RBG\u2019 aka Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a strident supporter of womens\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n

For more on pro-ISIS networks in Indonesia, I highly recommend this IPAC report<\/a> released this week on the linkages between extremist communities located in the archipelago and Syria. In typical IPAC form, the report carefully details how six men became radicalised and explains what this tells us about the susceptibility of certain groups in Indonesia to ISIS recruiters.<\/p>\n

Lastly, The Onion<\/em> reports<\/a> that an architect has presented President Obama with generic options for a war memorial that could work for Syria, Libya and Yemen. Owen Levin, the architect in question, explained: \u2018We\u2019ve also included a reflecting pool in the design that is ringed with placeholder names of battle sites, but these can easily be swapped out for Tripoli, Tikrit, Sana\u2019a, Mosul\u2014whichever ones you need.\u2019<\/p>\n

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

This week ASPI\u2019s Anthony Bergin and Clare Murphy published a new report<\/a> on Australia\u2019s terror threat level. For a quick wrap of terror threat levels around the world and the report\u2019s recommendations, watch Clare\u2019s interview<\/a> with Strategist<\/em> editor Amelia Long (5mins).<\/p>\n

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

Keep your ears free for this Loopcast podcast<\/a> in which J.M. Berger discusses whose recruitment messaging is more on point: ISIS or al Qaeda? (1hr)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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