The US Trump Administration, Japan’s Abe Government, and India’s Modi Government appear to be in lock-step in forming the new “Quadripartite” Alliance in the Indo-Pacific, just as a vital partner, Australia’s Turnbull Government, appears to be losing internal momentum.
And what does that mean for the next era of strategic alliances? A new NATO? A new period of diminished cooperation between the US and Mexico, the US and European NATO, and so on?
Perhaps the “experiment” in universal, forced literacy, has been a failure, an historical blip. Literacy is in retreat because of technology and because inquiring minds challenge leadership patterns. Yet intellectual capacity— signified by literacy— determines strategic success. What is to be done?
