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O que significa ser uma potência média democrática na era da ascensão da China? E por que duas nações que compartilham tanto — territórios vastos, economias baseadas em recursos naturais, dependência de commodities e laços comerciais profundos com Pequim — traçam trajetórias tão marcadamente diferentes?

*A Dinâmica Australiana, Brasileira e Chinesa* é um estudo compara...

I have just published Building the Impact Force: Marine Corps Transformation in an Age of Chaos. The book’s central argument is that the Marine Corps is evolving from a crisis-response “inside force” into something fundamentally differen: an impact force whose primary purpose is to generate disproportionate effects for the joint and allied force by sensing, deciding,...

In an earlier article I have argued that the U.S. Marine Corps and the Australian Army are engaged in a process of co-invention: two allied land and expeditionary forces, confronting the same Indo-Pacific strategic problem, arriving independently at compatible answers, and then testing those answers against each other through shared exercises and shared terrain.

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A still-common view of war treats it as a parenthesis: first comes competition among states, then armed conflict, and once hostilities cease, a return to politics and competition. Reality is more complex. Strategic competition does not stop when war begins. It continues through war and persists after it ends, but within a system that the war itself has helped transform.

In 2017, I sat down with then Chief of the Australian Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, at a moment when the Royal Australian Navy was entering the largest recapitalization of its fleet since the Second World War. New submarines, new destroyers, new amphibious ships were all coming, but Barrett was clear about where his attention actually had to be and not on the fleet that was...