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This week saw the\u00a040th\u00a0anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. Four decades later, how do young Vietnamese view the Vietnam War<\/a>? For an American perspective, a group of Marines who’d been left behind after the Ambassador was evacuated returned to Saigon\u00a0to recount<\/a>\u00a0how they experienced the final\u00a0moments of the conflict. Meanwhile, TIME features 21 iconic photos<\/a> of the Vietnam War (but warning, some of the images are graphic in nature).<\/p>\n

Also this week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an historic speech to a Joint Meeting of Congress in Washington DC (full text here\u00a0<\/a>or video here<\/a>). In the speech,\u00a0Abe spelled out the\u00a0reasons for\u00a0strengthening the alliance,\u00a0but in\u00a0maintaining the position of previous governments,\u00a0he didn’t deliver a fresh apology for Japan’s actions during the Pacific War as many had expected. For more on Abe’s messsages, read<\/a>\u00a0Michael Green and Nicholas Szechenyi on cogitASIA<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There’s been a shake-up within the Saudi Arabian royal family with a younger generation of princes given more influence earlier this week which, as the New Yorker<\/em>‘s Robin Wright sees it, could ‘shape policy in the world’s largest oil exporter for decades’. Read more about the transition and its potential impact here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a\u00a0quick snapshot of\u00a0Australia’s trade and security relations with the US, I recommend a new resource<\/a>\u00a0jointly produced\u00a0by the East-West Center, United States Studies Centre and Perth USAsia Centre on why Australia matters for American and vice versa. Along with\u00a0handy\u00a0graphs and maps, the publication also provides useful statistics on the volume of Australian arms imports supplied by the US.<\/p>\n

How can the US military maintain technological edge? Rather than developing multiple offset strategies, invest in a hedging strategy and in your institutional capacity to adapt, recommend <\/a>Ben FitzGerald and Scott Cheney-Peters. For more on how this works and why it’s needed, keep reading their War On The Rocks<\/em> piece here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite an official ban on women in ground-combat units, American women\u00a0continued to serve alongside US Army Special Forces in Afghanistan in Cultural Support Teams, aimed at accessing and communicating\u00a0with Afghan women. Back in 2012, I wrote\u00a0<\/a>that there was still a dearth of information about CSTs, but in 2015, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s new book Ashley’s War<\/a><\/em> explores the bonds\u00a0between women on the battlefield and the story of 1st Lieutenant Ashley White, the first CST killed in action. Check out NPR’s interview with Lemmon here<\/a>\u00a0and book review by Brian Castner on Foreign Policy<\/em> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lastly, the Duffel Blog has obtained exclusive footage of ISIS training techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Interested in Chinese foreign policy? Stapleton Roy, David M. Lampton and Robert Daly come together at an East-West Center event to talk China’s regional policy, foreign policy and relations with the US<\/a> (1hr 19mins).<\/p>\n

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

Strategy wonks will appreciate\u00a0Lawrence Freedman’s recent appearance in this War On the Rocks<\/em> podcast <\/a>in which Ryan Evans asks him about the Middle East, Russia, China and Britain’s role in the world (19mins).<\/p>\n

For more about\u00a0Australia’s intel deal with Iran, check out my new CIMSEC podcast<\/a> featuring\u00a0ASPI’s Andrew Davies on the challenges such a deal poses and\u00a0whether (intelligence) sharing really is caring (10mins). Blog post version here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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