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Going to war will be the gravest decision a nation and its market leaders make. At this time Australia is at war with the Islamic State. We also are in a region that has become a lot more volatile, as China asserts itself and America looks for to carry the line. What is it like to go to war? Just how do we opt to go to war? Where might we go to war in the future? Will we get that decision right? In such a vivid, urgent article, James Brown appears to background, strategy and his own experience to explore these questions. He examines the legacy of the Iraq Warfare and argues that it has prevented an obvious view of Australia's future conflicts. He talks about how we connect into the US war machine given that American soldiers are based in Darwin. And he sheds attractive light on the incredible concentration of war power in the hands of the Primary Minister - and exactly how this might fail. This powerful article argues that we never have yet begun to believe through the choices which may confront us in years ahead. 'When you are in a country like ours, the dirty business of war is a stranger. That is the blessed legacy of a place where troops are almost never seen, and then only on parade. Where war means Anzac Day, and Anzac Days are the same. You can find few moments in modern Australia when you may pause to ask the most consequential of questions...The facts that we are prepared to combat for?' (Wayne Brown, Firing Brand) James Dark brown is a ex - Australian army officer who commanded a cavalry troop in Southern Iraq, offered on the Australian taskforce headquarters in Baghdad and was mounted on Special Forces in Afghanistan. He now runs the Alliance 21 task at the united states Studies Centre, University or college of Sydney. A columnist for the Saturday Newspaper and regular press contributor, his first reserve was the acclaimed Anzac's Long Shadow.
