STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
MIGRATION
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Strategic Power's Inverse Relationship to Population Increase
One of the remaining myths to be punctured in assessing strategic power and strength is the widely-entrenched belief that national economic growth is directly proportional to population growth and population size.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EARLY WARNING | Farewell, China Dream. Hello, Cold Dawn
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09-2023
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Context is King
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Strategy for Leaders
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Türkiye’s Strategic Penetration of Africa
Türkiye has established itself as a major strategic force in Africa, and works extensively through front groups controlled by its national intelligence service and a related “private military contractor”, SADAT.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
One BRIC at a Time
The Africa-Middle East space and the implications of the BRICS expansion and rising instability: it’s all about perception, and perception counts.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
The New Total War Economy
How can Xi Jinping, without a strategy or an economic philosophy, promise a war without a war economy?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The New Scramble in Africa
Now the fruits of Africa’s new era of coups are apparent, not just with the coup in Niger, but also with the other recent coups and “non-constitutional” changes of government.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | When First We Practice to Deceive
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES