Constitutional Monarchy: A Defining Time for Monarchies

How a coronation raised the urgency of the strategic need for durable identity and purpose.

Les Trois Couronnes: The now and future kings of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, and much of the Commonwealth. King Charles III (seated), flanked by his immediate heir, Prince William (left), and Prince William’s heir, Prince George (right), immediately after the King’s coronation in London on May 6, 2023. All are aware that the Crown represents multi-generational continuity and stability of governance, but the King now has to ensure that the virtues of constitutional monarchy are known in a world seduced by the transactional materialism of republicanism

Has the Canada-US Strategic Split Become Irreversible?

And what does that mean for the next era of strategic alliances? A new NATO? A new period of diminished cooperation between the US and Mexico, the US and European NATO, and so on?

Has Türkiye Finally Been Forced Off the Fence? And for How Long?

ESSENTIAL READING | The US at 250

The Next Strategic Advantage: the Restoration of Literacy

Perhaps the “experiment” in universal, forced literacy, has been a failure, an historical blip. Literacy is in retreat because of technology and because inquiring minds challenge leadership patterns. Yet intellectual capacity— signified by literacy— determines strategic success. What is to be done?

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Has the Canada-US Strategic Split Become Irreversible?

Has Türkiye Finally Been Forced Off the Fence? And for How Long?

ESSENTIAL READING | The US at 250

The Next Strategic Advantage: the Restoration of Literacy