CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Prestige: Decider of Wars
More critical than the “correlation of forces” is the balance of prestige in “an ignoble world”.
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.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Gaining Strategic Initiative
There is no “art of the deal” unless negotiations — a non-kinetic dynamic — can be forced to begin. How engagement is commenced determines strategic advantage and momentum.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | Humiliation as Strategic Motivation or Malaise
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Currency as the Fundamental Source of Power and Power Projection
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Dynamics of 2025
Has the “age of heroes” begun its return? Leaders replacing managers?
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | The “New Extispicy” Which Follows 2024
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Surviving the Coming Calm...
… after the watershed of the US November 5, 2024, elections
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Who Lost Western Civilization?
If we choose to no longer define it, who can be blamed for its disappearance?
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Is Land a Key Basis of Strategic Power?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Secret War at the Global Hub
Ethiopia’s war evades foreign scrutiny, but highlights UAE-Saudi-Turkish competition
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
EARLY WARNING | When Cash Was King: Long Live the King
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Asymmetric Conventional Conflict
Where can the Israel-Iran conflict go? And has it already created a break-point for the level of influence on the region by external great powers?