STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The US Heads, Without a Plan, Into its Most Vital Election
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EARLY WARNING | How Appropriate is Our Emerging Technology?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Libya as a DI’ISH Target: Broad Regional Ramifications
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 01/2016
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EN CLAIR | PRC Streamlines Military; Creates New Commands
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Syria, Russia Dossier II: The Putin-Netanyahu Duet
Israel and Russia continue their strategic cooperation, despite pressures from the Obama White House to force Israel back into rapprochement with Turkey to help preserve energy supplies to that country as it faces a Russian economic sanctions regime.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria, Russia Dossier: Russia’s War Against DI’ISH
How Russia has planned and executed its expanded war against DI’ISH and the jihadist movements in Syria, and how Turkey and the US have been responding.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Saudi Arabia Throws Down the Gauntlet, But to Whom?
Saudi Arabia’s theater of mass executions on January 2, 2016, was designed to reinforce the authority of its leadership. It may bolster short-term objectives, but it also ended chances for an early end to the Yemen war; it further damaged relations with the US; and it bolstered Turkey’s and Iran’s…
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Does the US Have a Middle East Strategy Going Forward?
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY