STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The US National Security Strategy: What Does it Actually Mean?
The Trump Doctrine will attract dismissal, but it is highly informative and important.
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STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Post-China: Thinking Beyond Beijing
The collapse of communist China had become irrefutable as 2025 came to an end.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | A Storm at the World’s Trade Hub: the Bab el-Mandeb
Some regional states can claim Washington’s attention, which makes the US’s possible moves over Somaliland recognition more delicate. Control over this East-West sea route hub is so critical to trade and strategic dominance that Trump may seize what leverage he wants and leave the details for later.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | The Imperial Drumbeat Quickens
Imperial conquest is returning to the world in a new form, just as we have digested the earlier ages of imperial conquests. Our world is the result of the absorption of smaller states over millennia, even most states which emerged from colonialism in the latter half of the 20th Century.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Strategic Change is Tied to Defense Acquisition Changes
Has Canada been gifted a chance to determine its own strategic future?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 12/2025
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
ESSENTIAL READING | An Apple a Day Didn’t Work Out Well
Apple is perhaps the single most important US tech company successfully supplying its commercial products to the world. This book presents a devastating picture of its foray into China and reveals the failure of the US Government to be a part of the considerations Apple took into account.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | The Blinding of FiveEyes, But Maybe it was Time
It was touted as the most important strategic alliance in the world, but the FiveEyes network had fallen into disunity and disutility by 2020 at the latest.
SOVEREIGNTY
Sovereignty, Borders, If You Can Keep Them
One of the founders of the post-British United States of America, Benjamin Franklin, was asked what would be the nature of the new nation. He answered: “A republic; if you can keep it.”
RESOURCES
Strategic Resources: Rare Earths in Australia
Modern war would chew through a lot of rare earth elements.
HISTORY
Red Sea History is Today’s Framework
Sovereignty, Strategy, and the Red Sea: Ethiopia’s 1875-1876 War and the Return of Global Competition in North-East Africa.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Africa and Religious Warfare: The “Christian Persecution” Claim
The sudden US charge and the deafening silence which followed raise serious questions.