Theme archive
Musings on Empire and War
Imperial power, war, security, militarisation, violence, and the narratives that justify conflict.
When Leadership Confronts Reality
The Collapse of Consent
When the Grey Zone Becomes the Main Theatre
War, intelligence, and the slow unravelling of the public realm
Sophisticated State Failure
How the West learned to Decay Without Falling
Most Hated Nation
Nation-state legitimacy and the exhaustion of political imagination
The Pause That Passes For Peace
Why Military Force is Never Sufficient
How We Learn to Love the Fire
Acceptance of War in a Fracturing World
Redacted!
Freedom of Information or the Manufacture of Ignorance?
The End of the Opposition
A New Working Grammar for Government
The Folly That Is AUKUS
An inquiry the state would not hold
The War That Cannot End
On the Productive Machinery of Permanent Conflict
Monsoon Before The Storm
The Gathering Pressures of a Multipolar World
When The Masters Stop Learning
In the early 1980s I found myself walking factory floors in a Japan many American executives still assumed was an industrial backwater.
United in Principle
The Lingering Death of an Empire on Paper
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