STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
SOVEREIGNTY
EARLY WARNING | The Forgotten Do Not Forget
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | Wings of Worry
SOVEREIGNTY
Cratometamorphosis: Inclusion, Exclusion, Seclusion?
The mounting hysteria over secessionist and sovereignty movements — whether in Catalonia, Scotland, Kurdistan, Turkey, West Papua, or Oromia — should cause political leaders to reflect on the causes of national schisms rather than merely to attempt to suppress them.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The Race: Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Governance Republic Versus Crown: Competition or Convergence?
A debate is emerging, for the first time in more than a century, over forms of governance. Is it a choice between “republic” and “monarchy”? Or something more? Are “crowned republics” an answer?
CRIME & CORRUPTION
The State of the USA: River of Doubt; Swamp of Despair
It may be that the Washington, DC campaign to isolate, capture, and subdue US Pres. Donald Trump has finally succeeded. If so, what does that mean for the global strategic environment? But does Donald Trump have options to regain control of the situation?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The Impulse in the US Toward Civil War
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 07/2016
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Australia’s Great Strategic Transition
Australia is about to embark upon only its second strategic “course correction” since Federation in 1901. But it has yet to determine a destination, or to plot a course.
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Eternal Patterns
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Strategic Symbolism in an Era of Resurgent Identity Politics
A look at the example of how Ethiopia’s search for cohesiveness and growth reaches, of necessity, into its historical identity