Gregory R. Copley, Editor Emeritus - Defense and Foreign Affairs

ECONOMICS & BUSINESS

Risk Averse? Risk Ignorant?

Calculating risk, opportunity, and context: how the failure of our policy tools contributes to the current collapse of the strategic balance. Changing times mean changing tools.

ECONOMICS & BUSINESS

The Rise and Fall of Strategic Utopianism

Command of the 21st Century now seems likely to fall, when the chaos subsides, into the hands of the power which is first able to reject the unattainable fabianist dream of a post- industrial welfare society and begin to re-harness balanced economies and productivity.

STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY

EARLY WARNING | Nobility as an Essential Element of Strategy

CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA

The Invisible Trenches of World War IV

In today’s global “new total war” battlefield, all effort is being placed on the offensive, and none on the defensive. No-one wins, but someone loses. And the global architecture changes.

GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS

All Fall Down…What’s Next?

Former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson said that a week was a long time in politics. The remainder of 2024 is, then, an eternity. Is there anywhere a respite from seemingly irrational instability?

STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE

Societies Alike in Their Strategic Unhappiness

DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES

Can AUKUS, Unrepaired, Succeed?

Failure to plan equals planning to fail. So goes the mantra of businessmen, statesmen, and warriors. Can greatness of outcome be guaranteed without greatness of vision and articulated goals?

GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS

A Shameful Conquest of Itself

Elections in the United Kingdom delivered “a government no-one wanted” and five years of wasteland in a world in crisis, saved only by a Crown still binding the “sceptered isle”.