CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
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
The New Total War: The PLA Case for a Coup Against Xi?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | The Inevitable Global Evaporation of Trust
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Xi Jinping and the Galtieri Syndrome: Indicators of an Irrational War?
How do strategic planners prepare for what seem to be irrational decisions by a leader such as Xi Jinping, who is isolated from advice and is prepared to define the national interest in his own terms, regardless of the possible outcome?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Beijing “Talks”: On the Psychology of Strategic Incompetence
Regardless of the tactical milestones, is the outcome of the PRC-US conflict largely foretold?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Great Game: The Endless, Vital Game
Russia is emerging as a major victor in the Great Game. Classical geopolitics lives on.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | Tactical Obsession as a Mental Illness
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Global Architecture: When Will There Be a New Global Order?
The “Rules-Based World Order” is in hospice care. Are we already in the inter-pax years?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Undoing Nixon in the Mid-East
The overthrow of Richard Nixon led post-Soviet Russia to dominance in the Middle East.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Nixon in the PRC
History has largely disregarded the unintended consequences of US Pres. Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to the People’s Republic of China, and how the USSR retaliated, cutting short the President’s strategic agenda for dealing with both Beijing and Moscow.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Constitutional Monarchy: A Defining Time for Monarchies
How a coronation raised the urgency of the strategic need for durable identity and purpose.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA