HISTORY
Sustaining Legacies
On the Passing of Sir Geoffrey Pattie, former UK Minister of State for Defence
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.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Nuclear Weapons 2.0: The Twilight World Tour?
Nuclear proliferation, which the West and the USSR attempted to limit, occurred notwithstanding, and this has rendered the original tenets of nuclear deterrence moot, while the evolution of new weapons and countermeasures is far more significant in pushing nuclear weapons toward meaninglessness.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The Optimism of Possibly Reaching Bedrock?
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”.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY