GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Surviving the Coming Calm...
… after the watershed of the US November 5, 2024, elections
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Recalibrating AUKUS (and FiveEyes) in the Second Trump Era?
Incoming Pres. Trump’s main challenge is not how to make the two key strategic alliances merge, but finding leaders in all the four other states who can see the strategic potential of the FiveEyes/AUKUS combine. There may be some blood on the floor as he jostles to get the outcome right.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria: Russia’s Mistakes and the Traps Awaiting Türkiye
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 12/2024
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | The End of Everything, But Who’s Listening?
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Who Lost Western Civilization?
If we choose to no longer define it, who can be blamed for its disappearance?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | NATO, Europe, Cyprus, Türkiye, and “The EastMed”
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Who Lost the Pacific?
Great power paternalism finally has its answer. The Pacific states themselves may be taking their region back.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Is Land a Key Basis of Strategic Power?
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Restoring Canada’s Credibility Within FiveEyes
Canada is on the verge of emerging from a long nightmare of strategic decline as the present Trudeau Government faces imminent destruction. But how quickly can this country, once with the world’s third-largest navy and a mighty aerospace industry, restore its credibility?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Secret War at the Global Hub
Ethiopia’s war evades foreign scrutiny, but highlights UAE-Saudi-Turkish competition
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS