HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
The Electronic Spectrum: The Binary Zimmerman
The historic and wider context of cyber warfare, and why it’s too important to let it be dominated by the technocrats
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.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | The Farther Forward to See, and be Unsurprised
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Global Strategic Outlook
What are the global trends? And where do some of the important regional trends fit?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Libya, Africa, and the Mediterranean After Qadhafi
What are the prospects? A consolidation of Mediterranean-EU links? The possible transformation of the AU? A surge in terrorist activities? The prospect — or near certainty — of protracted competition between factions in the New Libya if the 1951 Constitution is forgotten?
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
EARLY WARNING | The Global Interregnum
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | Naval Nirvana
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | Circuit Diagrams of Rising Power
Important New Strategic Literature
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Strategically, When Does Size Matter?
The Positive and Negative Aspects of Scale in the Strategic Impact of Population Size
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Ramifications of Turkey’s “Anti-Coup”
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Northern Tier: Iran Effectively Sidesteps Turkey
With a major new agreement to deliver energy to Europe via Iraq and Syria, Iran continues to transform the region, and fuels the impetus and rivalry for Turkey’s new “Ottoman Region” moves.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | We Are All Strangers in a Strange Land
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE