HISTORY
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CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Next Strategic Advantage: the Restoration of Literacy
Perhaps the “experiment” in universal, forced literacy, has been a failure, an historical blip. Literacy is in retreat because of technology and because inquiring minds challenge leadership patterns. Yet intellectual capacity— signified by literacy— determines strategic success. What is to be done?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
A Modestly-Growing Australia is Losing its Regional Security Dominance
Significant improvements in the sophistication and general capabilities of South-East Asian nations, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, have relegated Australia’s historical strategic and miliary dominance of the region to a reduced significance.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2026
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
A Vortex of Decline Affecting Government Across the West
Starmer’s exit is indicative of the political turmoil afflicting Western governments around the world as nationalism overtakes globalism.
HISTORY
HISTORY | The Original Special Relationship
A brief history of the oldest alliance in the world
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Assessing Long-Term Threats and Trends
The most important, least invested, security priority
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Japan’s View of its Current Threat Position
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | Iran: The Bitterness or Emptiness of Whatever is Defined as Victory
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Senegal, a Key New Energy Supplier, May Not Yet be Stable
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
How the New Multi-Polar Defense Industrial World Drives Geopolitical Evolution
Global defense industrial thinking is becoming far more entrepreneurial and creative as major defense forces break with absolute strategic integration with the US, or any other major power.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Further Indicators of Türkiye’s Nuclear Weapons Ambitions
The Turkish defense complex keeps moving toward the nuclearization of its strategic capabilities, from nuclear powered submarines – SSNs or SSGNs – as well as nuclear weapons. And Israel seems set to confront Türkiye before this becomes an operational reality.