STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
VALEDICTION | Kerry Collison: His Own Man
His epitaph has already been so eloquently written by an eloquent, important life.
Gregory R. Copley, Editor Emeritus
Gregory Copley is the Editor Emeritus of Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, and was its founding editor in 1972. An Australian, he has also been President of The International Strategic Studies Association since 1982.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Dividing the Red Sea Amongst Many
There’s more at stake for the international trading community — and regional states — than just skirmishing with Yemen. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are indirectly at war with each other, and, with Israel, against Türkiye; while Eritrea and Ethiopia prepare for war.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Big One: India Versus Pakistan, 2025 Edition
A new Indo-Pak war may now be unavoidable, and this time it is a much bigger affair.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Is the PRC-India Proxy War in Pakistan Still on Course to Grow?
Was the Indian-orchestrated false-flag “terrorist attack” in Kashmir — to provide legitimacy for the launch of Operation Sindoor — premature? And did it indicate another strategic intelligence failure by India?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | Escaping the Strategic Impact of the Fevered Brain
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Deep War: Between the Process and Outcome Sectors
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
An Unstable Global Defense Marketplace
New threats, new alliances, new technologies: all challenge the US’ “golden age”.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Views on the Unknown Future Defense Industrial Base
How nations shift to new, and flexible, manufacturing techniques, and adapting old industries, will be a key determinant of sovereignty in the coming decades.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Piercing the Veil of the CCP’s PsyOps Creation of “Great China”
The “West”, at a critical time in a transforming global environment, is failing at leadership levels to grasp how best to deal with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) because it is still captive to Beijing-propagated myths of PRC strengths.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The Global Cratometamorphosis Is Underway
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Great Barrage: How the US Embarks on its New Global War
This may be the first occasion on which the US has actually initiated a global offensive. All its previous endeavors have been either evolutionary or reactive. The new Trump dynamic has put all states — friend and foe — into a defensive and recalculating mode.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA