2024 - Defense and Foreign Affairs - Strategic Policy (Page 4)

HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY

ESSENTIAL READING | The origins and history of the US’s obsession to make its aerial ground attack weapons more “precise”

SECURITY, UNREST & WAR

Rebuilding Ties with the Military

The Turkish President, eight years after the “coup attempt” which flushed out his adversaries, is finally rebuilding the Armed Forces in his own image.

SECURITY, UNREST & WAR

Türkiye’s President in Crisis Mode

ECONOMICS & BUSINESS

Awakening From Dreams: Strategic Infrastructure Plans Which May Disappear

Great plans to transform global supply chain dominance have largely been destroyed by economic and political collapse, from Beijing to most Western capitals.

CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA

The Invisible Trenches of World War IV

In today’s global “new total war” battlefield, all effort is being placed on the offensive, and none on the defensive. No-one wins, but someone loses. And the global architecture changes.

GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS

All Fall Down…What’s Next?

Former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson said that a week was a long time in politics. The remainder of 2024 is, then, an eternity. Is there anywhere a respite from seemingly irrational instability?

GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS

STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The Ultimate Trajectory: Government Legitimacy Under Threat

Governments act with a sense of righteous purpose to “restore order” and to arrest protestors, while vilifying the causes of public outrage. But the sense of unrest reflects the failures of government rather than the failure of the populations.