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PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 01/2025
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | An Amateur’s War...
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
New Chengdu Aircraft Challenges Distant Targets
David Archibald looks at the significance of the new, long-range strike aircraft.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Understanding Trump…
…and President Trump understanding how, particularly, his allies see him.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Türkiye’s Proxy Domination of Syria Spearheads a Regional Transformation
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Currency as the Fundamental Source of Power and Power Projection
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Dynamics of 2025
Has the “age of heroes” begun its return? Leaders replacing managers?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Syria: Türkiye’s New Plan and the Rôle of Russia
Russia, perceived as the big loser with the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad Government, sees a bigger goal: the potential to break up NATO as the US and Israel move to support the autonomy of the regional Kurdish populations.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | The “New Extispicy” Which Follows 2024
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Surviving the Coming Calm...
… after the watershed of the US November 5, 2024, elections
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Recalibrating AUKUS (and FiveEyes) in the Second Trump Era?
Incoming Pres. Trump’s main challenge is not how to make the two key strategic alliances merge, but finding leaders in all the four other states who can see the strategic potential of the FiveEyes/AUKUS combine. There may be some blood on the floor as he jostles to get the outcome right.