DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Is AUKUS Heading for Pillar III, Even While Fighting for Survival?
The third pillar of AUKUS is belatedly shaping up to be strategic space cooperation.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Strategic Change is Tied to Defense Acquisition Changes
Has Canada been gifted a chance to determine its own strategic future?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 12/2025
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | The Blinding of FiveEyes, But Maybe it was Time
It was touted as the most important strategic alliance in the world, but the FiveEyes network had fallen into disunity and disutility by 2020 at the latest.
RESOURCES
Strategic Resources: Rare Earths in Australia
Modern war would chew through a lot of rare earth elements.
RESOURCES
US-Australia Rare Earths Accord Disheartens the CCP
US President Donald Trump on October 20, 2025, acted to disrupt the Fourth Plenum of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China by announcing a US way around the CCP’s ace negotiating position: the control of the export of rare earths and critical minerals to the US and the West.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | Can Happiness Defeat Anger? And Why it Matters
Is happiness or contentment, in military parlance, merely an expression of morale? To what degree is it achievable through doctrine, policies, and the shape of society?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Has Trump Transformed, or Ended, the Anglophone Group?
United States President Donald Trump, during the first year of his second presidency, severely shook strategic relationships with the US’ key historical allies in the Anglosphere, the traditionally English-speaking societies of the world.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Australia’s Strategic Decline: Is it Terminal?
Australia’s strategic decline has been underway for years, and is worsening. What now?