GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Strategic Biography: Boris Johnson
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 08/2019
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Defense and Strategic Planning Challenges in an Entirely New Age
Trends in geopolitical, economic, and technological developments increasingly need to be viewed within a global context. The age of stovepiping, which worked during much of the Cold War, cannot be expected to work now, or through the coming decades. Everything is connected.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Hong Kong's Protests Reflect the New Global Strategic Realities Challenging Beijing
Affairs in smaller geopolitical entities — such as Hong Kong and Dominica — show significant vulnerabilities in Beijing's apparently seamless rise to strategic power.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Turkey After the F-35 Cancellation: the Potential Impact on Cyprus
Turkey's actions toward Cyprus are now likely to strongly reflect the breakdown in Turkey's relations with the United States and the European Union.
SOVEREIGNTY
The UK and the West: Britannia Waives the Rules
Whither the United Kingdom? What are the options — and more importantly, what are the strategic priorities — for the Government of Boris Johnson? Can the UK recover from its several decades of strategic decline as a result of its European Union membership.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Have Saudi Arabia and the UAE Found an Exit Plan from the Yemen War?
Neither the old “North Yemen” nor the old “South Yemen” have any leadership or specific plan. Both are fractured. Only Iran is making ground. And Beijing may be the hidden factor.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | India's Biggest Gamble? Crushing the Kashmir Problem
India, having finally lost the battle to win the Kashmir Valley's Muslim-majority population by political means, began moving in August 2019 to win control over its restive region by overwhelming punitive action. But it risks a longlasting strategic blowback.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | Do Ancient Aliens Drive Tomorrow's Events?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | A “Coup Attempt” in Ethiopia May Be Something Different
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 07/2019
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR