GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
All Fall Down…What’s Next?
Former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson said that a week was a long time in politics. The remainder of 2024 is, then, an eternity. Is there anywhere a respite from seemingly irrational instability?
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GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The Ultimate Trajectory: Government Legitimacy Under Threat
Governments act with a sense of righteous purpose to “restore order” and to arrest protestors, while vilifying the causes of public outrage. But the sense of unrest reflects the failures of government rather than the failure of the populations.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Societies Alike in Their Strategic Unhappiness
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | How Does India Move, Strategically, Over the Next Term?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 07/2024
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | The French Disconnection, and the Wider Trends
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | A “Coup Attempt” in Bolivia?
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Summer Reading for Strategists
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Has President Bio Dodged a Bullet?
Sierra Leone’s Julius Maada Bio bludgeoned his way to re-election in June 2023, drawing international condemnation. And yet he has now won regional support to stay in office.
SOVEREIGNTY
The Unfinished Battle
The European Union parliamentary elections, the 2024 US elections, Britain’s general election — and others — highlight the reality that “the reaction of 2016” has resumed.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Türkiye Builds its “New Soviet Man”
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
2024: Tactical Nuclear Weapons
The years 2022-24 have seen increased talk of battlefield nuclear warfare, but little discussion of actual doctrine or approach. One of the great pioneers of nuclear strategy and doctrine, Dr Stefan Possony, developed doctrine after World War II which has been forgotten today.