SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The East China Sea Dispute: Movement at Last?
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance — From Defense & Foreign Affairs Editor Gregory Copley, in Taipei
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | Are We There Yet?
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”
SOVEREIGNTY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | A Noble Era Ends, Leaving Southern Africa Hanging
An estimate of an area of key current significance
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 08/2012
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | The “East of Suez” Syndrome
Important New Strategic Literature
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
A Confluence of Events in the Horn of Africa
The announcement of the death of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi — possibly a month after he actually died — starts to focus the growing confluence of events in the Horn of Africa; events which show a profound watershed in the strategic situation along one of the most significant trade…
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Changes in Latitudes; Changes in Attitudes
Changes in the Global Strategic Architecture and their Ramifications for Sea Lane Security, with Particular Emphasis on the South China Sea Issue.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EN CLAIR | Indonesia Continues its Defense Modernization
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Australia Poised for New Leadership Challenges
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance — From Defense & Foreign Affairs Canberra Correspondent
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | To Own the Future, First We Must Name It
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Pakistan Moves Toward Political, if Not Economic, Stability
An estimate of an area of key current significance
PERSONNEL