SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Changes in Latitudes; Changes in Attitudes
Changes in the Global Strategic Architecture and their Ramifications for Sea Lane Security, with Particular Emphasis on the South China Sea Issue.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Global Strategic Architecture: A Very Different Global Pattern
Economic, social, political, and demographic changes are key drivers in what is a transforming global strategic architecture. This will necessitate a revision of existing power projection, trade, and intelligence priorities, structures, and doctrine to meet the emerging realities.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategic Policy in an Age of Global Realignment
A Three-Part Presentation on Grand Strategy, the Global Condition and Outlook, and a Context for 21st Century Strategic Policy.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Logistics Strategy: Logistics on the New Battlefields of Global Politics and Conflict
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Defense Procurement: Politicization Without Performance
An estimate of an area of key current significance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
A Jihadist, Anti-Western Agenda is Being Forced on Syria
The international community has been blindly following a jihadist-driven agenda for Syria; a solution the majority of Syrians reject, but which Turkey and Qatar have been driving.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Re-Thinking the Paths to Conflict: A US Observation
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Military Doctrine: The Legacy of Coalition Warfare
US Defense reorganization means major doctrinal re-thinking, not just for the US, but for its Allies. The debate now begins on how to get back to sustainable — politically and economically — warfighting doctrines after the strategic failure of “overwhelming wealth”.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategic Affairs: No Contest
The US-Iran-Israel Stand-Off: No Conflict in Sight; But for the US, No Success for Embargoes; No Ability to Constrain Nuclear Weapons. The Real War is Between Iran and Turkey.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Global Outlook: Eight Strategic Factors to Consider in 2012
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
An Information Model for the Coming “Age of Chaos”?
Human communication skills are the drivers of progress and strategic dominance, but only when they communicate substance. Is the current crossroads in military, economic, social, and demographic trends now being shaped by the fact that the means of communication have come to outweigh the substance…
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Myanmar Becomes the Opening Gambit in the New US-PRC Maneuver
Washington potentially gains in Myanmar some of the strategic reach it lost in the Indo-Pacific balance — vis-à-vis the PRC — with the alienation of Pakistan. But the game has a long way to play ...