HeyJaredDead Reckoning
An Australian and Indo-Pacific centred publication considering matters of national security, democracy, economies and technology.
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Supply Chain Anatomy: M1A2 Abrams (opens the original)
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What is the M1A2 Abrams?The M1 Abrams is the United States’ third-generation main battle tank (MBT), in service since 1980 and named after General Creighton Abrams. It is the heavy, direct-fire core of a combined-arms force, combining firepower, protection, mobility and shock effect. It is distinctive among Western MBTs for its Honeywell AGT1500 gas-turbine (”jet”) engine rather than a diesel, delivering 1,500 shaft horsepower and rapid acceleration at the cost of heavy—and somewhat absurd—fuel
How the State Learned to Buy (opens the original)
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Once, the State needed a thing it could not make. This was no shame; no one can make everything, and a wise household buys what it cannot build. But the State had let slip, over the easy years, not only the making of the thing but the knowing of it — the quiet expertise by which a buyer can tell the good thing from the plausible one, the fair price from the fond one. It had kept the purse and lost the eye. And a buyer with a purse and no eye is not a buyer at all. It is a mark.Now to buy wisely
The Frontier, Not the Museum (opens the original)
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For 80 years, Australia relied on borrowed certainties. A great and powerful friend, the United States, guaranteed our security. A rules-based world order, backed by American power, made the world predictable and trade reliable—ideal for a commodity and export-based economy. High prices for our minerals and farm exports kept us prosperous. And the good times seemed so assured that we stopped worrying about productivity—around the time we stopped improving it.This was our version of what Tim Snyd
The Enemies of the Future (opens the original)
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The 2026-27 Budget came and went, with the government subsequently being forced to wind back some aspects of its taxation changes. Perhaps the government’s overconfidence, even indifference to concerns in framing the Budget, reflected a government practised at opacity. But in that it was aided and abetted by an Opposition that has mislaid its constitutional function, <a href="https:/
How the State Learned to Count (opens the original)
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Once, before the portals, the State could not sleep, because it could not count its people. It knew they were out there — in the far towns, the caravan parks, the back bedrooms of houses it had never seen — but not one by one; and a thing the State cannot see it cannot administer, and a thing it cannot administer it fears. So it lay awake in the long grey nights, afraid of its own citizens: not because they meant it harm, but because they would not resolve into a number.For a person is a difficu
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