By Brad Glosserman
“No thanks.”
That, in summary, is the response of Hugh White to the recent announcement that the United States would be sending marines on permanent rotation to Darwin, along with naval and air forces that would have increased access to facilities in northern Australia.
That answer is no surprise to those familiar with White’s writings on power dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region; he has been making the case for strategic reorientation in Canberra for a couple of years now. But White is no starry-eyed academic who hankers after the pacifist dream of complete disarmament. He’s a professor of strategic studies at Australian National University, one of Asia’s most distinguished strategists, and a former Australian deputy secretary of defense.
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