SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
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
Northern Tier Situation: Declaring Victory and Going Home
The US begins the process of substituting cash for combatants in the Northern Tier as the race begins for comprehensive US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Grand Strategy: Washington Gambles on NATO’s Last Big Push
NATO — or in this case, essentially the US — invited Moscow to join the ballistic missile defense (BMD) party, forgetting that the last time it did this it led to the demise of the USSR ...
RESOURCES
EARLY WARNING | “Energy Man”
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Flesh on the History
Important New Strategic Literature
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Pakistan Floods: the Catalyst Which Ends the Afghan War?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Safeguarding Long-Term Security as Budgets Fall
The rôles of defense science and strategic intelligence analysis become vital in a world of uncertain threats and uncertain funds.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
EARLY WARNING | The Shape of the World in 2020
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Sydney: Cipher and Search
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
ESSENTIAL READING | Defiant, Forgotten
Important New Strategic Literature
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Eastern Mediterranean as the Eye of the Hurricane
The crisis now focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean had Jimmy Carter’s overthrow of the Shah of Iran as its basis, and now centers around the competition — and cooperation — of Russia, Iran, Turkey, and the People’s Republic of China.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
National Disaster Response: Strategic Disaster Responses
Pakistan’s floods demonstrate the strategic implications of natural disasters, particularly during conflict, and of disaster management choices