SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The World’s Wars in Search of Meaning
In the longer-term, we are moving — unless strategic consideration is given — into an age bereft of history, identity, and considered values and goals.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 07/2025
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
ESSENTIAL READING | Huawei: A Company Greater than the Part?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
The Collapse of the Treaty World
Treaties, including the “international rules-based world order” (or Pax Americana), the UN, the EU, and NATO are being dissolved, abandoned, or challenged. What comes next?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
What Happens to China After the Collapse of the Communists?
Few wish to contemplate the end or transformation of a defining threat, any threat. Threats define most societies. And while the CCP is anxiously attempting a rear-guard, belated action to save itself, the West is still acting as though the PRC is a "rising power".
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | Uneasy Lies the Head that Advises the Crown
Does what we do make a positive difference in the life and history of our society? At what stage do we question what we may think are illogical or counter-productive orders or perceptions of a situation?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2025
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Beijing’s Theology of its “Right to the Seas”
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
VALEDICTION | Kerry Collison: His Own Man
His epitaph has already been so eloquently written by an eloquent, important life.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The “Century of Türkiye” Lasted Only Three Years
The Turkish President’s ambitious plans to recreate the footprint of the defunct Ottoman Empire are facing widespread rejection, and dependence on foreign goodwill.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Big One: India Versus Pakistan, 2025 Edition
A new Indo-Pak war may now be unavoidable, and this time it is a much bigger affair.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Is the PRC-India Proxy War in Pakistan Still on Course to Grow?
Was the Indian-orchestrated false-flag “terrorist attack” in Kashmir — to provide legitimacy for the launch of Operation Sindoor — premature? And did it indicate another strategic intelligence failure by India?