Ross Babbage Explained

Ross Eden Babbage (born 1949) is the Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Forum Pty Ltd and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) in Washington DC. Babbage is also Managing Director of Strategy International, a national security consulting and educational services company.Babbage formerly held the position as Head of Strategic Analysis in the Office of National Assessments and Assistant Secretary for ANZUS and then Force Development in the Department of Defence. He has also been an advisor to various government ministers and departments[1]

Babbage was educated at Barker College in Sydney. He subsequently completed bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from the University of Sydney and a PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University.

In 2003 to 2004 he served as Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.[2]

He has addressed Australia's future defence needs in a range of reports and papers[3] and in February 2011 his study of Australia's defence needs in the future Australia's Strategic Edge in 2030 was released.

Babbage was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2011.[4]

On the U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry

Previewing his upcoming book in a NYT column, Babbage argued that a major war in the Indo-Pacific is more likely now than ever since WWII, that it would be catastrophic, and that the United States is woefully unprepared.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Security Challenges Journal . www.securitychallenges.org.au . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090920145516/http://www.securitychallenges.org.au/ArticlePages/vol4no1Babbage.html . 2009-09-20.
  2. See for an earlier publication in this centre: - Babbage, Ross, & Australian National University. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. (1986), Looking beyond the Dibb Report / by Ross Babbage Australian National University, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Canberra
  3. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/adf-must-equip-for-asia-threat-paper/story-e6frg6nf-1111115873804 The Weekend Australian
  4. Web site: Award extract: Australian Honours Search Facility . 16 January 2023 . Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet: Australian Honours Search Facility.
  5. News: Babbage . Ross . 2023-02-27 . Opinion A War With China Would Be Unlike Anything Americans Faced Before . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-03-04 . 0362-4331.
  6. Web site: A coast too long : defending Australia beyond the 1990s / Ross Babbage . 16 January 2023 . National Library of Australia Trove.
  7. Web site: Australia's strategic edge in 2030 / Ross Babbage . 16 January 2023 . National Library of Australia Trove.
  8. Web site: Games Plan: The Case for a New Australian Grand Strategy . 16 January 2023 . Connor Court Publishing.
  9. Web site: Winning Without Fighting: Chinese and Russian Political Warfare Campaigns and How the West Can Prevail . 16 January 2023 . CSBA Online.
  10. Web site: Stealing a March: Chinese Hybrid Warfare in the Indo-Pacific; Issues and Options for Allied Defense Planners . 16 January 2023 . CSBA Online.
  11. Web site: Which Way the Dragon? Sharpening Allied Perceptions of China's Strategic Trajectory . 16 January 2023 . CSBA Online.
  12. Web site: The Next Major War: Can the US and its Allies Win Against China? by Ross Babbage . 16 January 2023 . Cambria Press: Publications.

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