HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The ROC Navy at a Critical Watershed
An estimate of an area of key current significance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Piracy: An Overview — Puntland and Piracy
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Eurasian Strategic Matrix: Europe’s Latest Tinder-Box
From Broadbrush Historic Mega-Trends to Imperative Concrete Regional Undertakings
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Asia: The Sinking of Diplomacy
The sinking of the RoKS Cheonan has produced additional US pressure on its regional allies to appease the DPRK, giving Pyongyang clear success.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Black Sea Watershed
How Turkey’s New Axis With Russia Affects US Interests in the Eastern Mediterranean and South-Eastern Europe
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Terrorism: The Moscow Bombing
An Inevitable Victory for Moscow, but a Hard Struggle Ahead
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Northern Tier Conflicts: Pakistan Holds Firm
ISI Re-Appointment Gives the West Time to Review Policies
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | 2010: The Short-Term Strategic Outlook
An estimate of an area of key current significance
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
EN CLAIR | US-PRC Divide Begins
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Global Implications of Clashing Trends in Afghanistan and Pakistan
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Kurdistan May Yet Challenge Iran
Iran has succeeded as the midwife in dividing Iraq, but the growing power and autonomy of Iraqi Kurdistan may yet backfire on Tehran, and the US.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Complexity: the Yemen Fixation - Craving Clarity
Media, and political, hysteria over Yemen obfuscates a broader, deeper strategic matrix of long-term importance. Is the Western demand for simplicity, and the refusal to embrace complex context, at the core of Western strategic failure?