AUKUS alliance
Strategic Architecture: An Evolution in the Pacific
A new geopolitical bloc is forming in Oceania, and it may be strategically significant.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Oceania Begins to Stir
Australia’s “apartheid” referendum and New Zealand’s election have consequences.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Global Trends: The Great Transition
The glacial drifts to and from autocracy
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Constitutional Monarchy: A Defining Time for Monarchies
How a coronation raised the urgency of the strategic need for durable identity and purpose.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
AUKUS: Operational Vitality; Strategic Challenges
Operationally, the AUKUS alliance is moving rapidly to create an integrated global power projection instrument. But it is very different at the political level, where politicians appear to be distracted by other agendas.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
AUKUS Begins the Unveiling
One of the biggest single multi-national defense investments has begun. But it’s not all plain sailing, and it has ramifications well beyond the People’s Republic of China.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions - 02/2023
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
ESSENTIAL READING | Chips as the Main Meal
Important New Strategic Literature
Argentina
When the Balloon Goes Up …
Balloon warfare has been advancing for years. Now, a public outcry at PRC balloon ops has generated a strategic watershed, damaging to Beijing.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
AUKUS: Some Steps Forward, Some Back
The AUKUS alliance is moving toward a viable global operational structure, as much to deal with the world after the potential collapse of the Communist Party of China, as to confront Beijing today. But is Australia, its smallest partner, still thinking just too small?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Elections Which Mark 2023 as a Key Year
The reality is that elections, even in small nation-states, can have global consequences.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The New China Sea
Beijing is now strategically dominating the Caribbean Basin. Washington remains quiet.