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
Global Strategy: The Critical “Phony War”
Beijing’s new war against the US and the West could be won or lost before kinetic actions get serious
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | Old Soldiers Never Die, But …
RESOURCES
Post-COVID-19: Re-Thinking Energy Security
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Post-COVID-19: Re-Thinking Aerospace
Afghanistan
Beijing’s “Unavoidable” War: The 21st Century’s Total War Has Begun
The new form of “total war” which Beijing has begun is more comprehensive and amorphous than any strategic engagement seen thus far in history. And Beijing has learned from history: direct military engagement is, of necessity, a very secondary component. This is a war which Pres.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
EARLY WARNING | A Free Trader’s Case Against Free Trade Today
Australia
ESSENTIAL READING | Allies at Ground Zero
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Outlook Post-COVID-19: Re-Thinking Australia
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
War in a Time of Weakness
The 2020 Fear Pandemic breakpoint has moved the world from “strategic competition” to semi-formal hostilities. It is now about strategic management in a period of economic and population decline.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The COVID-19 Wars: Strategic Warfare Amid Chaos, Threat, Opportunity
“[T]he only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” — Inaugural address of US Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | To an Exiled Patriot, Too Long From Home: Goodbye Assad
A tribute to a strategic thinker of global significance