{"id":32555,"date":"2017-06-23T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T04:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=32555"},"modified":"2017-06-23T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T05:36:41","slug":"aspi-suggests-23june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/aspi-suggests-23june\/","title":{"rendered":"ASPI suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First up, this <\/span>must-read longread<\/span><\/a> courtesy of <\/span>The National Interest<\/span><\/i> chronicles how deep structural shifts are afflicting the global system to bring about an end to the post-Cold War era. The authors reflect on the old world and our new world\u2014that of declining Western primacy, the return of international ideological struggle and great-power competition, along with a discombobulating global disorder. Those phenomena, they reckon, will be exacerbated by \u2018pronounced uncertainty about the willpower of the chief defenders of the post\u2013Cold War system\u2019. Come for the tidy explanation; stick around for the prescription.<\/span><\/p>\n

We mainly leave the capability wonkery to ASPI\u2019s <\/span>superstar interns<\/span><\/a>, but this week we wanted to bring you two good sea-based reads that have been bobbing around. The first is <\/span>this forensic exploration<\/span><\/a> of the Ford-class carrier program\u2019s \u2018appalling mismanagement and avoidable major failures\u2019. The second is <\/span>Robert Farley\u2019s reflection on sinking an aircraft carrier<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This<\/span><\/a>. Ugh. (Re-upping <\/span>the excoriation of the Thucydides Trap<\/span><\/a> featured in <\/span>last week\u2019s Suggests<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

It has been a big week for fresh reports, so buckle your seatbelts and get ready for some rapid-fire research\u2026 First up, let\u2019s applaud our friends at Lowy for the release of their <\/span>2017 poll<\/span><\/a>, which got a good run, including<\/span> here at <\/span>The Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/i><\/a> but our fave was<\/span> illustrated by a talented Melbournian and published on <\/span>The New York Times<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span> A massive effort from CSIS<\/span><\/a> makes some poignant recommendations for the US as it attempts to address grey zone coercion in the Asia\u2013Pacific (check out discussion from the launch event<\/span> here<\/span><\/a>).<\/span> CNAS recently published a massive effort<\/span><\/a> recommending a push to make \u2018networking\u2019 a fundamental core to US foreign and defence policy approaches in Asia. And finally, a little closer to home, CT supremo Andrew Zammit underlines the importance of virtual planning for Australia\u2019s counterterrorism efforts in<\/span> a new report for IFRS<\/span><\/a>. (Here\u2019s a <\/span>couple more<\/span><\/a> we <\/span>didn\u2019t have<\/span><\/a> the column-inches for.)<\/span><\/p>\n

And just quickly, <\/span>this review <\/span><\/a>of the new Laura Poitras doco on Mssr. Assange ain\u2019t bad. On the other hand, <\/span>Pamela Anderson\u2019s (love?)letter to Assange<\/span><\/a> isn\u2019t good. In it she appeals to May, Corbyn, Macron and Trump for Assange\u2019s release, and urges:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018We must turn the world around. Stop escalating cyberwars. Stop geopolitical sabre-rattling. Stop interfering in elections. Stop torturing animals and eating them. Stop writing speeches on goatskin. Letting Julian go free would change everything. For a better world!\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Riiiiiight<\/span><\/a>…<\/span><\/p>\n

Podcast<\/b><\/p>\n

The Diplomat<\/span><\/i>\u2019s latest podcast<\/span><\/a> (25 mins) features an A+ discussion on the future of diplomatic relations between Beijing and Taipei after Panama recently switched its recognition of their capital cities in Beijing\u2019s favour.<\/span><\/p>\n

Videos<\/b><\/p>\n

Several former prisoners who were held in secret CIA prisons have brought a case against the two psychologists who devised the CIA\u2019s \u2018enhanced interrogation\u2019 techniques like walling, sleep deprivation, stress positions and waterboarding. (The pair made US$81 million in the process). <\/span>The New York Times <\/span><\/i>this week published a short annotated video <\/span>highlighting the depositions given by the plaintiffs and defendants <\/span><\/a>(10 mins). Observe the stunning perceptual chasm that exists between the parties. (Scroll down below the video to read the <\/span>Times<\/span><\/i>\u2019 run-down, along with the case documents.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Topics including the alt-right, <\/span>Richard Spencer<\/span><\/a>, nationalism, populism and the health of democracy, both in the US and around the globe, were laid out as a veritable smorgasbord in a recent event run by <\/span>The Atlantic<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>Tuck in<\/span><\/a> with Jeffrey Goldberg, Graeme Wood and Rosie Gray (68 mins).<\/span><\/p>\n

When the F-35 turned up in France for the Paris Air Show this week, it did so with the usual attendant scepticism. But the Joint Strike Fighter exceeded all expectations with a spectacular air show where it pulled out all of the stopgaps imaginable. Check out footage of the show <\/span>here at <\/span>Wired<\/span><\/i><\/a> (3 mins).<\/span><\/p>\n

Events<\/b><\/p>\n

Canberra: After a hugely successful inaugural conference last year, Young Australians in International Affairs is back in the capital hosting round two of Future21. Featuring an all-star lineup of who\u2019s who in defence, strategy, foreign affairs and international policy, the conference will run over 7\u20138 September at ANU. <\/span>Get in quick <\/span><\/a>before tickets sell out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perth: Another event for the calendars, the Perth USAsia Centre this week announced their 2017 In the Zone Conference, dubbed The Blue Zone. With Julie Bishop, Han Sueng-soo, Penny Wong on the agenda, mark those diaries for 2 October and <\/span>register here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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