ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
The New Total War Economy
How can Xi Jinping, without a strategy or an economic philosophy, promise a war without a war economy?
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SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The New Scramble in Africa
Now the fruits of Africa’s new era of coups are apparent, not just with the coup in Niger, but also with the other recent coups and “non-constitutional” changes of government.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Türkiye Quietly Renounces NATO Links, But Not NATO Benefits
Türkiye has stopped attempting to balance its NATO membership against its commitments to Russia. It has, de facto, now thrown in its lot with Eurasia, demonstrated by its August 3, 2023, restructuring of the Turkish Armed Forces leadership.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | When First We Practice to Deceive
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Has the West Abandoned Central Asia, and Vice-Versa?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 08/2026
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Budget Superpower
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | More Taiwan Gaming
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EN CLAIR | Beijing Plays its Puppets in Buenos Aires and Brussels
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Global Trends: The Great Transition
The glacial drifts to and from autocracy
CRIME & CORRUPTION
Strategy: The Flood Formula
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA