Forecasting the 2026 Defence Strategy for Australia

Some new commentary - including from two ANU expert academics who I have administratively supported.

A. A September 11 love story about Troth and traumatic experiences.

B. ANU’s Professor Stephan Fruhling and Associate Professor Andrew Carr on the forthcoming 2026 Defence Strategy for Australia. Also, the Lowy Institute’s Major General Mich Ryan. A retrospective on the 2024 Defence Strategy from RAND Australia’s Dr Andrew Dowse.

C. How to escape from a scam compound.

D. The international roots of the American Revolution.

E. Today’s MIT OCW free course is on Theories and Methods in the Study of History created by Professor Jeffrey S. Ravel.

F. The Forecaster is a fascinating documentary on Martin A. Armstrong that involves event studies; geopolitics; gold; Russia; central banks; and very likely, prime bank fraud.

G. On Palantir’s embedded ontology.

H. On 1929 and 2008 as financial crashes that still affect us all in 2026.

I. A Paddy Chayefsky penned speech from Network (1976) on the global political economy.

J. My Bloody Valentine live in Tokyo.

K. Henry Rollins on Tom Green Live.