HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Souda Bay: Again Vital in the Eastern Med.
As Turkey slips in terms of NATO reliability, planners look at changing threat and access patterns in the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategy: To Win is to Change, and in Many Ways
Almost all decisive strategic victories — winning the peace, not just the battle — derive from the adoption of game-changing capabilities, as well as strategic depth. Competing through linear development of old approaches is expensive and dangerous, especially when budgets are tight.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | *This* is the Book
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Real War: Winning the US Mid-Term Elections
The US White House seemed ready to risk war over Ukraine, and staged an expensive “sound and light” African Summit, all in order to impact the mid-term US Congressional elections, coming up in November 2014.
RESOURCES
ESSENTIAL READING | Business Unusual
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Pacific Overtures: the Crescendo Builds
A new strategic framework is now becoming established in the Pacific, but it is far from settled.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Africa Transforms, But Confused US Policies Push it Toward China
The US Obama White House seeks to retain Western influence over Africa — partially through its Africa Leaders Summit — while ceding strategic “authority” to France. But the plan has backfired, giving strategic opportunity to China, and opening the gates to African change.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EARLY WARNING | How Societies Cope: Through New Allegiances
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Books Which Can Change Us, and History
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Approaches to the Post-Western Era: A Blank Canvas Awaits Its Artist
SOVEREIGNTY
The Ukraine Crisis: The Changing Black Sea Balance, and its Broader Impact
The inevitable return of Crimea to Russia, and the strategic consequences in the Black Sea region, the Caucasus and Northern Tier, for NATO, the Mediterranean, and, well, everywhere ...