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Why Iran may now choose surprise as its weapon of choice against Israel

The undeclared proxy war between Iran and Israel is out in the open. As Israel has expanded its military aims from full-scale offensive military...

28.10.2024 10

WA Today

Rodger Shanahan

Why Iran may now choose surprise as its weapon of choice against Israel

The undeclared proxy war between Iran and Israel is out in the open. As Israel has expanded its military aims from full-scale offensive military...

28.10.2024 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rodger Shanahan

Why Iran may now choose surprise as its weapon of choice against Israel

The undeclared proxy war between Iran and Israel is out in the open. As Israel has expanded its military aims from full-scale offensive military...

28.10.2024 20

The Age

Rodger Shanahan

Why Iran may now choose surprise as its weapon of choice against Israel

The undeclared proxy war between Iran and Israel is out in the open. As Israel has expanded its military aims from full-scale offensive military...

28.10.2024 8

Brisbane Times

Rodger Shanahan

Hezbollah is damaged, not finished. But what will Iran do about it?

The death of Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general for more than 30 years, is the latest in a series of stunning blows that Israel has...

29.09.2024 10

WA Today

Rodger Shanahan

Hezbollah is damaged, not finished. But what will Iran do about it?

The death of Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general for more than 30 years, is the latest in a series of stunning blows that Israel has...

29.09.2024 10

The Age

Rodger Shanahan

Hezbollah is damaged, not finished. But what will Iran do about it?

The death of Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general for more than 30 years, is the latest in a series of stunning blows that Israel has...

29.09.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Rodger Shanahan

Hezbollah is damaged, not finished. But what will Iran do about it?

The death of Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general for more than 30 years, is the latest in a series of stunning blows that Israel has...

29.09.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rodger Shanahan

Has Israel absorbed all the lessons of the 2006 Hezbollah war?

28.09.2024 10

The Australian

Rodger Shanahan

Why did Israel choose 3.30pm on a weekday to detonate its explosive pagers?

It was audacious in its conception and brilliant in its execution. Thousands of pagers distributed to Hezbollah operatives had been intercepted and...

19.09.2024 10

WA Today

Rodger Shanahan

Why did Israel choose 3.30pm on a weekday to detonate its explosive pagers?

It was audacious in its conception and brilliant in its execution. Thousands of pagers distributed to Hezbollah operatives had been intercepted and...

19.09.2024 10

The Age

Rodger Shanahan

Why did Israel choose 3.30pm on a weekday to detonate its explosive pagers?

It was audacious in its conception and brilliant in its execution. Thousands of pagers distributed to Hezbollah operatives had been intercepted and...

19.09.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Rodger Shanahan

Why did Israel choose 3.30pm on a weekday to detonate its explosive pagers?

It was audacious in its conception and brilliant in its execution. Thousands of pagers distributed to Hezbollah operatives had been intercepted and...

19.09.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rodger Shanahan

Netanyahu’s disregard for hostage deaths is turning Israel against him

Hamas’ execution of six Israeli hostages in a tunnel underneath Gaza was a tragedy. It was also a reminder, if one was needed, of the mentality of...

03.09.2024 10

WA Today

Rodger Shanahan

Netanyahu’s disregard for hostage deaths is turning Israel against him

Hamas’ execution of six Israeli hostages in a tunnel underneath Gaza was a tragedy. It was also a reminder, if one was needed, of the mentality of...

03.09.2024 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rodger Shanahan

Netanyahu’s disregard for hostage deaths is turning Israel against him

Hamas’ execution of six Israeli hostages in a tunnel underneath Gaza was a tragedy. It was also a reminder, if one was needed, of the mentality of...

03.09.2024 20

The Age

Rodger Shanahan

Netanyahu’s disregard for hostage deaths is turning Israel against him

Hamas’ execution of six Israeli hostages in a tunnel underneath Gaza was a tragedy. It was also a reminder, if one was needed, of the mentality of...

03.09.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Rodger Shanahan

Going to war isn’t making Israel safer. Its enemies have only grown in number

For all the killing, destruction and displacement wrought upon Gaza over the past 10 months, Israel is likely to be less safe when military operations...

14.08.2024 8

WA Today

Rodger Shanahan

Going to war isn’t making Israel safer. Its enemies have only grown in number

For all the killing, destruction and displacement wrought upon Gaza over the past 10 months, Israel is likely to be less safe when military operations...

14.08.2024 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rodger Shanahan

Going to war isn’t making Israel safer. Its enemies have only grown in number

For all the killing, destruction and displacement wrought upon Gaza over the past 10 months, Israel is likely to be less safe when military operations...

14.08.2024 20

The Age

Rodger Shanahan

Going to war isn’t making Israel safer. Its enemies have only grown in number

For all the killing, destruction and displacement wrought upon Gaza over the past 10 months, Israel is likely to be less safe when military operations...

14.08.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Rodger Shanahan

Why an Israeli ground fight with Hezbollah makes no sense

10.07.2024 10

The Australian

Rodger Shanahan

Payman’s exit tells a different story

Few would have predicted that nine months after the October Hamas terrorist attack against Israel, an Australian Labor Party senator would break...

04.07.2024 10

WA Today

Rodger Shanahan

Payman’s exit tells a different story

Few would have predicted that nine months after the October Hamas terrorist attack against Israel, an Australian Labor Party senator would break...

04.07.2024 10

The Age

Rodger Shanahan

Payman’s exit tells a different story

Few would have predicted that nine months after the October Hamas terrorist attack against Israel, an Australian Labor Party senator would break...

04.07.2024 8

Brisbane Times

Rodger Shanahan

Payman’s exit tells a different story

Few would have predicted that nine months after the October Hamas terrorist attack against Israel, an Australian Labor Party senator would break...

04.07.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rodger Shanahan

Think the Middle East doesn’t affect us? Payman’s exit tells a different story

Few would have predicted that nine months after the October Hamas terrorist attack against Israel, an Australian Labor Party senator would break...

04.07.2024 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rodger Shanahan

David McBride is not a whistleblower or a hero. He is a man convinced of his own opinion

One person’s whistleblower can be another person’s thief, or even traitor. And so it is with the McBride case.

16.05.2024 10

WA Today

Rodger Shanahan

David McBride is not a whistleblower or a hero. He is a man convinced of his own opinion

Former Australian Army lawyer David McBride’s hefty prison sentence, handed down on Tuesday, was heavily criticised by his supporters for...

16.05.2024 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rodger Shanahan

David McBride is not a whistleblower or a hero. He is a man convinced of his own opinion

16.05.2024 30

The Age

Rodger Shanahan

David McBride is not a whistleblower or a hero. He is a man convinced of his own opinion

One person’s whistleblower can be another person’s thief, or even traitor. And so it is with the McBride case.

16.05.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Rodger Shanahan

Bibi plays tense game of brinkmanship in Rafah

09.05.2024 20

The Australian

Rodger Shanahan

Israel and Iran shun rules in high-risk ‘game’ of brinkmanship

21.04.2024 9

The Australian

Rodger Shanahan

Tehran’s calculated gamble takes Mid-East to brink of war

14.04.2024 20

The Australian

Rodger Shanahan

A clearly marked convoy, an Australian aid worker. Israel has exposed its disregard to the world

On the same day that Israeli F-35s launched missiles to kill several senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officers meeting in the Iranian embassy...

04.04.2024 10

WA Today

Rodger Shanahan

A clearly marked convoy, an Australian aid worker. Israel has exposed its disregard to the world

On the same day that Israeli F-35s launched missiles to kill several senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officers meeting in the Iranian embassy...

04.04.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rodger Shanahan

A clearly marked convoy, an Australian aid worker. Israel has exposed its disregard to the world

On the same day that Israeli F-35s launched missiles to kill several senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officers meeting in the Iranian embassy...

04.04.2024 10

The Age

Rodger Shanahan

A clearly marked convoy, an Australian aid worker. Israel has exposed its disregard to the world

On the same day that Israeli F-35s launched missiles to kill several senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officers meeting in the Iranian embassy...

04.04.2024 7

Brisbane Times

Rodger Shanahan

Thought Islamic State had been eradicated? Think again

For many, the threat from Islamic State ended in the dusty Syrian town of Baghuz in 2019 when the remnants of the organisation finally succumbed to...

25.03.2024 9

WA Today

Rodger Shanahan

Thought Islamic State had been eradicated? Think again

For many, the threat from Islamic State ended in the dusty Syrian town of Baghuz in 2019 when the remnants of the organisation finally succumbed to...

25.03.2024 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rodger Shanahan

Thought Islamic State had been eradicated? Think again

For many, the threat from Islamic State ended in the dusty Syrian town of Baghuz in 2019 when the remnants of the organisation finally succumbed to...

25.03.2024 10

The Age

Rodger Shanahan

Thought Islamic State had been eradicated? Think again

For many, the threat from Islamic State ended in the dusty Syrian town of Baghuz in 2019 when the remnants of the organisation finally succumbed to...

25.03.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Rodger Shanahan

Retaliation, deterrence a balancing act for US

04.02.2024 6

The Australian

Rodger Shanahan

Tehran takes a calculated gamble and raises stakes

19.01.2024 7

The Australian

Rodger Shanahan

Blitz on Houthi stronghold raises the stakes for Tehran

12.01.2024 50

The Australian

Rodger Shanahan

As Biden warns of wider conflict, Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ plays with fire

There are growing fears that the war in Gaza is, to borrow US President Joe Biden’s term, metastasising into a regional conflict. In the past 10...

11.01.2024 6

WA Today

Rodger Shanahan

As Biden warns of wider conflict, Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ plays with fire

There are growing fears that the war in Gaza is, to borrow US President Joe Biden’s term, metastasising into a regional conflict. In the past 10...

11.01.2024 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Rodger Shanahan

As Biden warns of wider conflict, Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ plays with fire

There are growing fears that the war in Gaza is, to borrow US President Joe Biden’s term, metastasising into a regional conflict. In the past 10...

11.01.2024 10

The Age

Rodger Shanahan

As Biden warns of wider conflict, Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ plays with fire

There are growing fears that the war in Gaza is, to borrow US President Joe Biden’s term, metastasising into a regional conflict. In the past 10...

11.01.2024 20

Brisbane Times

Rodger Shanahan

Netanyahu isn’t destroying Hamas – he’s making it stronger

A few days before Christmas and two and a half months after Hamas killed more than 1200 men, women and children in a terrorist onslaught, Israel’s...

29.12.2023 20

WA Today

Rodger Shanahan

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