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The Hard Strategic Choices Facing New Zealand Part 2

The Hard Strategic Choices Facing New Zealand Part 2

As I wrote yesterday, New Zealand and Australia face some hard strategic challenges in the coming decades. Whether or not American power in the Pacific declines – and I suspect that rumours of its demise are greatly exaggerated – it remains certain that Beijing will continue to flex its military and economic

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Wednesday War

Wednesday War

Arriving in Saigon amidst the stifling heat and overwhelming US military presence, six young army nurses were suddenly hit with the reality of the Vietnam War. Based at Vung Tau at the only Australian field hospital, the nurses were little prepared for the intensity of nursing in a war zone.

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Israeli Security Experts: ‘America Needs A Border Wall’

Israeli Security Experts: ‘America Needs A Border Wall’

Investigative journalist Laura Loomer recently traveled to Israel where she spoke with national security experts, including Danny Tirza, the man responsible for building Israel’s controversial security barrier that protects Israel from Palestinian terror attacks. Watch as Loomer walks along the Gaza border as well as Israel’s most southern

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Where Do We Stand on the Iran Missile Launch?

Where Do We Stand on the Iran Missile Launch?

Our PM slunk off for five days’ R&R despite having just enjoyed a three week parliamentary break, so she isn’t around to comment. However, she was highly critical of Trump’s decision in May to withdraw from the 2015 Iranian nuclear accord which he said was “defective

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Kiwi Veterans of the 161 Battery to Receive New Medal

Kiwi Veterans of the 161 Battery to Receive New Medal

My father was in 161 Battery. He was an Australian on secondment to the New Zealand army, and his fellow soldiers called him Skippy. He has told me a number of stories about his time in Vietnam. One that sticks in my mind was how he and others manned the

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An inconvenient fact: Our gun laws were deregulated last year

An inconvenient fact: Our gun laws were deregulated last year

Press release ACT party The government appears to have hidden the fact that it deregulated New Zealand?s gun laws late last year, says ACT Leader David Seymour. Last December, eight days before Christmas, the prime minister made a regulation that allowed electronic applications for dealer?s licences, licences for

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