DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
How the Great US Schism Affects Global Affairs
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Changes in the Indian Ocean at the Core of the “New Balance”
Could the UK soon lose sovereignty over Diego Garcia? If so, the US would lose another key base in the Indo-Pacific. And how are Oman and Qatar planning for the future? Could the US even project force again into a major Afghan operation, or into Iraq?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | Beijing’s Bravura: its Main Strategic Weapon
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Current Estimate: The Hanoi US-DPRK Summit May Be Xi Jinping’s Victory
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Korea and the Return of China’s Tributary States
The Forthcoming Struggles and Wars, According to Xi Jinping
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Global Balance: Strategic Self-Defeatism
How the US internal political war against such issues as the INF Treaty withdrawal and missile defense modernization mirrors historical schisms inviting the overthrow of sound governance
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | What Does Australia’s Impending Government Change Portend?
The damage the Labor policies would do to the value of the Australian dollar would further exacerbate the ability of Australia to pay for the massive foreign capital programs, particularly the F-35A and the French submarines.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The PRC’s Internal Conversation
Beijing starts to frame a rationale and strategy for its New Thirty Years War with the United States.
CRIME & CORRUPTION
Sierra Leone Begins Slipping Back to “Business as Usual”
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
On Which Our Fates Depend
Are the 2 emerging global pillars more at risk from themselves than from each other? Are we seeing the re-emergence of the world division into the maritime states versus the heartland powers? Could the PRC become the first true global heartland/maritime power? What are the three overriding factors?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Missile Review Highlights a Lull in US Defense Bipartisanship
US Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass) and the Dem captive, the Center for American Progress, began a campaign to discredit the Review of US strategic defenses, showing a profound level of strategic ignorance and cupidity, knowing the media wouldn't question their misrepresentations or lack of understanding