STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
South Asian Uncertainties
Pakistan-US relations have revived in a sudden rapprochement based on Islamabad’s determination to reject all — not just some — Taliban, but India now seems determined not to take advantage of this victory, and has returned to a policy of strategic confrontation and escalation against Pakistan.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EARLY WARNING | Is NATO Trapping the West, or Can It Be Saved?
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | New Technology and New Doctrine for a New Era
Afghanistan
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09-2014
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Afghanistan: a Brief US Victory?
Washington clearly got the outcome it wanted when Pres. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn in to office in Afghanistan on September 29, 2014. The question will be how long the “government of national unity” with Chief Executive Officer (head-of-government) Dr Abdullah Abdullah can last.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The “Khorasan Pledge” and Sunni Jihadist Rivalry
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2014
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Boko Haram Attempts to Emulate DI’ISH
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Implications of US Joining the War on Boko Haram
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EN CLAIR | Australia’s Economic Shake-Up Will Impact Defense
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Middle East: The Khorasan Pledge
How the Great Intra-Muslim War Now Underway Could Re-Shape Much of the Middle East