{"id":20244,"date":"2015-05-08T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T04:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=20244"},"modified":"2015-05-13T18:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T08:07:05","slug":"aspi-suggests-8may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/aspi-suggests-8may\/","title":{"rendered":"ASPI suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Physics\"<\/a><\/figure>\n

To help you delve deeper into the world of strategy and international security, here are this week’s\u00a0reading picks and podcasts.<\/p>\n

Kicking off with Australia, channel your inner defence nerd with\u00a0all\u00a0Canberra papers published by ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (1968\u20132010)<\/a>\u00a0now available online. Early papers include\u00a0T.B. Millar<\/a>\u00a0on Soviet policies in the Indian Ocean (1970) while later\u00a0ones include\u00a0ASPI’s David Connery<\/a>\u00a0on Australian crisis policymaking and East Timor (2010).<\/p>\n

With Britain’s general election held yesterday, it’s timely to ask, where\u00a0is\u00a0the country’s foreign policy headed? Some accuse the UK of retreating from international affairs; others are concerned about its relationship with the EU. For finer analysis, read Chatham House director Robin Niblett on why, despite cuts to defence spending, UK foreign policy isn’t going AWOL<\/a> and Chatham House associate fellow Richard Whitman on why this election will determine the UK’s place in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last weekend, the Guardian\u00a0<\/em>reported<\/a>\u00a0that serious spinal injury from a US air strike in March has led\u00a0ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to step down as the organisation’s leader. It’s unconfirmed whether\u00a0Abu Alaa al-Afri<\/a>, a senior ISIS official and professor of physics,\u00a0is now in charge. ABC Radio National<\/em> spoke<\/a>\u00a0to Martin Chulov, the Guardian<\/em> reporter who broke the story, about the potential leadership change\u00a0and its\u00a0implications.<\/p>\n

But, bro do you even govern? Physics scholars like ASPI’s Andrew Davies and Mark Thomson\u00a0might\u00a0be highly capable at some things, but Daveed Gartenstein-Ross discusses<\/a>\u00a0how well\u00a0jihadi\u00a0groups govern the territory they control (45mins).<\/p>\n

Back in the Asia Pacific, Myanmar is also up for an election this year, and Carnegie Endowment has created\u00a0a handy fact sheet and timeline of developments<\/a>. For those curious about reform progress or military politics, Nicholas Farrelly offers\u00a0an\u00a0upbeat yet clear-eyed assessment<\/a>\u00a0on New Mandala,\u00a0<\/em>highlighting\u00a0some ‘genuinely useful and constructive<\/a> changes’, particularly in Myanmar’s major government institutions.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Southeast Asia, the US State Department just\u00a0approved<\/a> the potential sale of missiles to both Indonesia and Malaysia. And, senior navy leaders from the US Seventh Fleet, Singaporean Navy, Royal Malaysian Navy and Indonesian Navy met on board the USS Blue Ridge<\/a>\u00a0this week for a two-day\u00a0exchange of ideas and methodologies for joint responses in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t heard of the Military Writers Guild, start reading this interview<\/a>\u00a0with founder US Army Major Nate Finney who shares his thoughts on\u00a0military writing, work\u2013life\u2013write balance and developing strategic thinking. Meanwhile, Australian Army information operations specialist Jason Logue has a new piece<\/a> over on Nate’s other blog, The Bridge, on the meaning of ‘narrative’ and Islamic State.<\/p>\n

Lastly, in case you were wondering what Andrew Davies can<\/em> do, spruiking\u00a0The Strategist<\/em><\/a> is one of his mad\u00a0skills. #thinktankthuglife<\/p>\n

Podcasts<\/b><\/p>\n

What is jihadi culture? In a new Middle East Week Podcast, terrorism expert Thomas Hegghammer delves<\/a> into the socio-cultural practices of jihadi militants. Building on his recent talk \u2018Why terrorists weep\u2019 (full text here<\/a>), Hegghammer explains how understanding \u00a0the so-called \u2018soft matter\u2019 of jihadism is relevant to improving CVE programs (41mins).<\/p>\n

With the recent anniversary of the fall of Saigon, CIMSEC\u2019s Matthew Hipple interviews<\/a> US Navy Captain Peter Swartz (ret), currently principal research scientist at CNA Corporation, on his memories of the\u00a0Vietnam War, meeting his wife in-country, working for Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr<\/a> and the eventual evacuation of his family in 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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