SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Lingering South Sudan Affair
… and why Western intervention is making matters worse.
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STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Africa Transforms, But Confused US Policies Push it Toward China
The US Obama White House seeks to retain Western influence over Africa — partially through its Africa Leaders Summit — while ceding strategic “authority” to France. But the plan has backfired, giving strategic opportunity to China, and opening the gates to African change.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | For Libya, 1951 Constitution Now Shaping as Solution
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Boko Haram Attempts to Emulate DI’ISH
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EARLY WARNING | How Societies Cope: Through New Allegiances
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Implications of US Joining the War on Boko Haram
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 04/2014
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EN CLAIR | Australia’s Economic Shake-Up Will Impact Defense
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Books Which Can Change Us, and History
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Future Imperfect
SOVEREIGNTY
Unfinished Business on the White Nile
Sudan Pushes Fighting Against, and Inside, South Sudan as it Maneuvers to Re-Absorb South Sudan into Sudan
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Middle East: The Khorasan Pledge
How the Great Intra-Muslim War Now Underway Could Re-Shape Much of the Middle East