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When Great Powers Lose Touch With Reality:

Iran’s Hidden Battlefield: Could Tehran Turn Southern Iraq Into the Next Front?

Three Crises, One President: Is Trump's Strategic Bandwidth Running Out?

Peace on Paper, War in Waiting

A New Deal for the AI Age

When Efficiency Stops Being Enough

The Strait of Hormuz and the Return of Managed Escalation

Winning by Not Losing

Oil: The Atlantic Basin Buffer

There be Monsters Out There

Why Australia Won’t Fix This—Until It Has To

Australia’s Hollow Force:

The End of the Maritime Bargain

Australia’s Defence Illusion:

Does Trump Get Out of His Iran Debacle…

Australia’s Defence Spending Problem

On the Brink

The War the Markets Would End

The Market Just Voted

Bombs Don’t Buy You Regime Change:

Degradation Is Not Collapse:

The Legitimacy Spiral:

Quarantine, Islands, and Iron Ore

After Tehran Falls:

Taiwan’s ‘Silicon Shield’

Good for “America First.” But What About “Australia First”?

Before the Media Megaphone

The Focus Podcast | The Minnesota Moment

Xi’s Military Purge Is Not the CCP Cracking

The Pivot to Asia

When NATO's Article 5 Becomes a Trap, Not a Shield

The Focus Podcast | Pax Trumpicana

A Game of Chicken at Davos

What Would Machiavelli Think?

Making Anti-Americanism Great Again (MAAGA), or

Why Greenland — Not Ukraine — Is the Real Fulcrum of Western Security

Trump’s Middle Power Problem

Admiration and Ambivalence

NATO

Iran 2026

The Sopranos’ Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy

Oil, the Dollar, and the Guyana Question

The Future Is...

Force Without Law:

After the Victory

The Paradox of Power

Unmanaged Chaos

The Capture of Nicolás Maduro

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