SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Asymmetric Conventional Conflict
Where can the Israel-Iran conflict go? And has it already created a break-point for the level of influence on the region by external great powers?
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HISTORY
Sustaining Legacies
On the Passing of Sir Geoffrey Pattie, former UK Minister of State for Defence
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Is Türkiye Really the Next Target of Israel?
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Nuclear Weapons 2.0: The Twilight World Tour?
Nuclear proliferation, which the West and the USSR attempted to limit, occurred notwithstanding, and this has rendered the original tenets of nuclear deterrence moot, while the evolution of new weapons and countermeasures is far more significant in pushing nuclear weapons toward meaninglessness.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The Commonwealth’s Surprising Power and BRICS’ Fragility
CHOGM showed that the sun had not set on the British Empire, but that the Empire — now the Commonwealth — has prospered, and that the Crown, as head of it, has moved well beyond the grasp of the Government of the United Kingdom.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The Optimism of Possibly Reaching Bedrock?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Ramifications of UK Cession of the Chagos to Mauritius
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2024
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Looking at the Classic Autocracies ...
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Ending Iran’s Nuclear Façade
Major Western powers have for some time hidden their knowledge that Iran has already developed, tested, and deployed nuclear warheads for its strategic missiles. It is now critical to acknowledge the true position, and to assess the likelihood of their use.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Risk Averse? Risk Ignorant?
Calculating risk, opportunity, and context: how the failure of our policy tools contributes to the current collapse of the strategic balance. Changing times mean changing tools.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
New Tremors in the Turkish Army
Turkish Pres. Erdoğan’s lack of confidence in his army deepens, as loyalties persist to the Kemalist legacy of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), more than eight decades after his death.