AUSTRALIA today is in a most powerful position, with the greatest influence, globally, that it has had, and the connection with the US is central to that. This connection will be demonstrated and enhanced at this week's Australia-US Ministerial Consultations in Adelaide. The view of Australian influence comes not from some redoubt of pro-Howard or pro-Bush neo-conservatism. Instead, it comes from the London School of Economics and Columbia University. Gwyn Prins, a Brit, holds chairs at both those institutions and is one of Europe's leading strategic thinkers. His work focuses especially on making strategic analysis more complex, making it take...