HISTORY
Sustaining Legacies
On the Passing of Sir Geoffrey Pattie, former UK Minister of State for Defence
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Looking at the Classic Autocracies ...
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Risk Averse? Risk Ignorant?
Calculating risk, opportunity, and context: how the failure of our policy tools contributes to the current collapse of the strategic balance. Changing times mean changing tools.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | Maritime Strategy
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
AUKUS: The Silence of the Silent Service
AUKUS was conceived to deliver nuclear power to Australian submarine capabilities. The treaty is emerging as a strategic success … except for achieving its primary purpose.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Caucasus: How Close is Armenia to Collapse?
Yerevan’s long list of self-inflicted wounds has culminated with its “break with Moscow”.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The View from 1997: New Strategic Environments Demand a New Doctrinal View
The global military environment has, with the political division of the world, changed dramatically since 1990. But military doctrine, and the tools to cope with the new world, are still insufficiently developed.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Strategic Philosophy: Cratocide of the Republics?
The transformation of the global strategic architecture is well advanced, bringing with it the slow death of some of the structures begun in the industrial revolution, and the slow birth or re-birth of identities seeking sovereign security.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
China: What if Xi Jinping Survives?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Strategy for Leaders
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.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES