PERSONNEL
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.
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.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Canada Forced Out Into the Cold: Opportunity or Trap?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2025
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
An Unstable Global Defense Marketplace
New threats, new alliances, new technologies: all challenge the US’ “golden age”.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Can the US-Canada Wreckage Be Set Aside, or Repaired?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 03/2025
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
ESSENTIAL READING | Next Man Up? Canada in Contention
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 01/2025
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Understanding Trump…
…and President Trump understanding how, particularly, his allies see him.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Recalibrating AUKUS (and FiveEyes) in the Second Trump Era?
Incoming Pres. Trump’s main challenge is not how to make the two key strategic alliances merge, but finding leaders in all the four other states who can see the strategic potential of the FiveEyes/AUKUS combine. There may be some blood on the floor as he jostles to get the outcome right.