SOVEREIGNTY
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SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Southern Africa Instability Now at Dangerous Levels
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 08/2022
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | How India Got to 2022
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Forever Frenemies
Important New Strategic Literature
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Xi Jinping Battles to Retain Credibility in the Run-Up to the 20th Party Congress
Just how secure is Xi Jinping in his bid for a third term as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China? His actions against Taiwan show desperation.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Defining Governance in Times of Strategic Instability
Do we even understand the four terms which will guide our command over the future: Sovereignty, Democracy, Monarchy, Republic?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Military Conflict Evolves, and with It, Uncertainty
Armed conflicts are now more likely to occur, but warfighting lessons — from Russia-Ukraine and the PRC-ROC/US — are still incomplete, and outcomes uncertain.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The Ceremonial Decapitation of a Dead Terrorist
Al-Qaida’s revival must be considered unlikely. The very expensive assassination of Dr al-Zawahiri must be considered nostalgic strategic tokenism. It didn’t alter the strategic equation at all.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | Chaos, and the Opportunity for Choice
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Iran and the Magical Theater of Nuclear Weapons
PERSONNEL