SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 04/2025
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Piercing the Veil of the CCP’s PsyOps Creation of “Great China”
The “West”, at a critical time in a transforming global environment, is failing at leadership levels to grasp how best to deal with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) because it is still captive to Beijing-propagated myths of PRC strengths.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The Global Cratometamorphosis Is Underway
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 03/2025
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Loud, Clear Messaging from Beijing’s Silence
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 02/2025
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Prestige: Decider of Wars
More critical than the “correlation of forces” is the balance of prestige in “an ignoble world”.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Gaining Strategic Initiative
There is no “art of the deal” unless negotiations — a non-kinetic dynamic — can be forced to begin. How engagement is commenced determines strategic advantage and momentum.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | Humiliation as Strategic Motivation or Malaise
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Strategically, in 2025, “Chance Happeneth to Them All”
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
New Chengdu Aircraft Challenges Distant Targets
David Archibald looks at the significance of the new, long-range strike aircraft.