SOVEREIGNTY
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Brexit: Hysteria Continues to Prevail Over Contextual Views
Indicators of emerging patterns of global significance
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Early Warning: Urban Globalism’s Genocidal Predations
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Dangerous Consequences of a Legacy of Technology and Wealth
Wealthy societies have always assumed that their wealth would guarantee them strategic victory. With wealth came the belief that its holder was imbued with superior wisdom, regardless of reality.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Options for Africa as Nigeria Moves into a “Post-Democratic” Phase
The hopes for democracy in Africa seem almost to have vanished overnight because of the disappearance of serious international scrutiny of the manipulation of electoral and governance processes, largely since “the West” abandoned the Continent to the People’s Republic of China.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Persian Phoenix?
Iran has rejected pressures from Moscow and Beijing not to surge to dominate the Middle East. Where does this leave all the other players?
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
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
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.
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
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Is “The New Thirty Years War” Already Escalating?
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY