SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Türkiye’s Strategic Penetration of Africa
Türkiye has established itself as a major strategic force in Africa, and works extensively through front groups controlled by its national intelligence service and a related “private military contractor”, SADAT.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | When First We Practice to Deceive
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | More Taiwan Gaming
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
A New Eastern Mediterranean Strategic Matrix is Evolving
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Great Game: The Endless, Vital Game
Russia is emerging as a major victor in the Great Game. Classical geopolitics lives on.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Undoing Nixon in the Mid-East
The overthrow of Richard Nixon led post-Soviet Russia to dominance in the Middle East.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Proud Suicide of Türkiye
Türkiye, after its Presidential election, enhanced its negotiating position in the Great Game over Central Asia, but in all other metrics entered possible terminal strategic decline.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Tomorrow’s Battleground
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The World Island: Eurasia’s Re-Emerging Heartland
Why Uzbekistan’s new constitutional referendum was globally significant, and why Central Asia is the key to the emerging global strategic architecture.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | The Graveyard
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Iran: Death Before Disorder
Iran's clerics are suppressing protests with unprecedented vigor. But then what?