STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
PERSONNEL
Strategic Biographies: General Li Zuocheng, Commander, Army General Command, People’s Republic of China
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EN CLAIR | PRC Streamlines Military; Creates New Commands
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria, Russia Dossier: Russia’s War Against DI’ISH
How Russia has planned and executed its expanded war against DI’ISH and the jihadist movements in Syria, and how Turkey and the US have been responding.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | Mega-Trends Eat Smaller Trends ...
SOVEREIGNTY
South-East Asia’s Dilemma
Has ASEAN and its allies left it too late to counter the PRC’s oceanic expansion?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
RedMed: The Global Nexus at the Suez, Red Sea, and Horn of Africa
Why the RedMed Region is Becoming Increasingly Central to the Emerging Global Strategic Framework
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Russia, Syria, and the West: Finally at the Crossroads?
Russia has responded strenuously and unambiguously to the US, Turkish, Qatari, and Saudi provocations which began, and sustain, the war — and the Islamic Caliphate — in Syria.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | East Asia’s Busy Year
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Global Balance: The Global Tectonic Plates Begin to Move
Some of the short-term fog of global transformation is beginning to clear, showing the PRC and the US as — predictably — the great powers, but each facing profound existential challenges.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Now Can Cyrus and Darius Be Recalled - The Persians, Not the Clerics, Begin to Revive
The July 14, 2015, major power accord with Iran was portrayed as the deliverance of the laws of the international community upon Iran. But it has delivered more consequences than any of the parties could have considered.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Pakistan Prepares for a New Indian Military Confrontation
Indicators of emerging patterns of global significance