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.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Deep War: Between the Process and Outcome Sectors
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
An Unstable Global Defense Marketplace
New threats, new alliances, new technologies: all challenge the US’ “golden age”.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Views on the Unknown Future Defense Industrial Base
How nations shift to new, and flexible, manufacturing techniques, and adapting old industries, will be a key determinant of sovereignty in the coming decades.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Piercing the Veil of the CCP’s PsyOps Creation of “Great China”
The “West”, at a critical time in a transforming global environment, is failing at leadership levels to grasp how best to deal with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) because it is still captive to Beijing-propagated myths of PRC strengths.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The Global Cratometamorphosis Is Underway
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Great Barrage: How the US Embarks on its New Global War
This may be the first occasion on which the US has actually initiated a global offensive. All its previous endeavors have been either evolutionary or reactive. The new Trump dynamic has put all states — friend and foe — into a defensive and recalculating mode.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | Addictive Lunacy: Symptom of Democracy’s Sclerosis
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Prestige: Decider of Wars
More critical than the “correlation of forces” is the balance of prestige in “an ignoble world”.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Gaining Strategic Initiative
There is no “art of the deal” unless negotiations — a non-kinetic dynamic — can be forced to begin. How engagement is commenced determines strategic advantage and momentum.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | Humiliation as Strategic Motivation or Malaise
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE