Australian Journal of Defence and Strategic Studies

AJDSS Volume 2 Number 1

As 2020 continues to test Australia, and indeed countries around the world, great power politics, humanitarian disasters and pandemics equally will test global cooperation and the international system and structure. It is against this backdrop that we realise national security and defence, both domestically and internationally must never be taken for granted.

This issue features peer reviewed articles and commentary from voices across academia, the ADF and the Department of Defence and we continue to encourage contributions from across these sectors and others interested in Australia's defence and national security in future issues. Fostering scholarship, challenging discussion and original thinking on these matters is critical for the ADF and strategic thinkers across the Indo-Pacific as we face an uncertain future.

• The ambitious reform plans of the People's Liberation Army: Progress, prospects and implications for Australia
  Bates Gill, Adam Ni and Dennis Blasko
• Ten questionable assumptions about future war in the Indo-Pacific
  Ross Babbage
• Aiding our ally...some options for Australia
  Jonathan Earley
• Professional military education in the context of disruption
  Paul Davidson and Jane Tsakissiris

Focus
...on strengthening relationships through medical exchange

• Building Australia's defence relationships with Pacific Island nations through Enduring Health Civic Assistance (EHCA)
  Michael C. Reade
• Doing well by doing good: Mutual capacity building through strategic medical engagement
  Adam Mahoney, Scott Squires and Andrew Pearson

Commentary

• National mobilisation: What are the strategic risks to Australian national security planning?
  Donna Boulton
• National security, information and ideas: Time to think about ideational power
  Michael Hatherell, Katherine Mansted and Jade Guan

Reviews

• The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy
  Vince Scappatura | Reviewed by Iain D. Henry
• Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power
  Sheila A. Smith | Reviewed by Ben Ascione
• The System: Who owns the internet, and how it owns us
  James Ball | Reviewed by Tom Uren
• The Education of an Idealist
  Samantha Power | Reviewed by Jo Brick
• Contest for the Indo-Pacific: Why China Won't Map the Future
  Rory Medcalf | Reviewed by Jeffrey Wilson

Call for Submissions

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