HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | DPRK Nuclear Detonation Was Almost Certainly for Iran
An estimate of an area of key current significance
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | There’s Something Wrong ...
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Complex Soup: The “Eastern-Mediterranean, Central-Asian, East Asian, Euro-Atlantic and Others” Unified Dilemma
A butterfly flaps its wings at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri in North Korea, and a political equation becomes a tidal wave in Tehran. It’s more complicated than that, but, yes, everything is related.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | North Caucasus Takes Shape as an Early Obama Target
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Australia’s New Security Reports
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Old Peking Alive
Important New Strategic Literature
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Turkey Stumbles, But Washington Pushed
The mid-October 2012 Turkish interception of an alleged Syrian military shipment was intended to build momentum for the case to intervene in Syria. But it backfired, and may have damaged US-Turkish trust, and given the upper hand to Moscow.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Australia: Shuffling While Canberra Burns?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Psychological Strategy in the 21st Century
A look at how some aspects of the human condition remain constant through the changes in civilizational structures, and how some technological and geo-strategic evolutions will impact goal-setting, message content, and message-delivery and other aspects of psychological strategy.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The East China Sea Dispute: Movement at Last?
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance — From Defense & Foreign Affairs Editor Gregory Copley, in Taipei
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Changes in Latitudes; Changes in Attitudes
Changes in the Global Strategic Architecture and their Ramifications for Sea Lane Security, with Particular Emphasis on the South China Sea Issue.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EN CLAIR | Indonesia Continues its Defense Modernization
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance