STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Cyclic trendlines of growth and collapse in societies lead external observers to positions of either unrealistic optimism, unrealistic pessimism, or expectations of unrealistic timescales.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The chess-board of Central Asia’s “Great Game” was transformed into the intense complexity of the ancient Chinese game of Go — Weiqi — when the collapse of the latest phase of the eternal Afghan wars sent the consequences virally through global security frameworks.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Indo-Pacific is the anvil of a new world. But what exactly is the new world?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Important New Strategic Literature
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Ethiopia, facing a myriad of strategic domestic and regional challenges, just bought some breathing space. But time is running out to resolve a half-century’s accretion of corruption, cruelty, mismanagement…and international rivalries.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
PERSONNEL
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Put aside age-old conflict-driving myths, and opportunities abound.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
And, in a unique period of change, the new US Administration is operating from old strategic perceptions, even as it adopts new technology and doctrine