Tag Archive for: "Barack Obama"
NATO comes home

As befits most public documents issued at international gatherings, the communique released at the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s summit in Warsaw was both long and tedious, covering every conceivable global security threat …

Putting ANZUS in its place

During the Cold War, we were good allies to the Americans. Our presence in Korea and Vietnam was testament to our bona fides. But prime ministers Whitlam, Fraser, Keating and Hawke all had security policy …

Obama’s bitter Afghan legacy

Nearly 15 years after its launch, the United States’ war in Afghanistan is still raging, making it the longest war in American history. Nowadays, the war is barely on the world’s radar, with only dramatic …

ASPI suggests

With Donald Trump holding a few too many cards for comfort, The Washington Post is playing its ‘Obama nostalgia’ hand with a ‘virtual museum’ of the 44th Presidency. The masthead has released two ‘rooms’ so …