The stark differences between the Pentagon's most futuristic analyst and the military's top officer in the Pacific is part of a broad-range debate over the future of the military that is being carried out behind closed doors.
However, the intergenerational report gives us sufficient predictability about Australia's future to warrant an honest and broad ranging debate about our biggest opportunities and challenges, and how we address them.
The No to Age Banding website, backed by the support of Philip Pullman, Anne Fine, Michael Rosen and Jacqueline Wilson Unless you have been, in Anne Fine's words, "living in a shoe box" you'll know all about the age ranging debate.
During a wide ranging debate about the future of anti-doping in the midst of the crisis sparked by systemic Russian cheating, serious issues in other parts of the world and whether Wada is fit for purpose, it has also been suggested that the IOC could turn to other organisations to fulfil its functions.
Announcing his candidacy, he said: "It is no secret that I wanted Gordon Brown to run but, since Gordon has ruled himself out, I now believe we need to have a wide ranging debate about the way forward for the Labour party but more importantly the country".
However there is resistance from many countries to have a wide ranging debate.
A potential theoretical framework that addresses these questions is W. Lance Bennett's indexing theory, which argues that the range of debate on public affairs appearing in the news is indexed to the range of debate present in mainstream government discourse.
The presidents could take as an acceptable standard the range of debate in Israel's universities.
For months, senior Baathists had muttered about the movement's suspicious foreign links and about the "red lines" that ought to define the permissible range of debate.
The partimen was characterized by a more-limited and less-personal range of debate than a tenson, a similar form from which the partimen developed.
In reality, they don't offer observations: they control and limit the range of debate, shape and skew the political options, and deride and exclude those who try to pose an alternative.
