SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria Marked an Historical Watershed, Hidden by Verbiage
The strategic landscape changes irrevocably daily. The events of Sept 10, 2013, were of such magnitude that they could not be retracted, even though, in the weeks which followed, there were strong words and gestures — as though nothing had changed — which seemed to give a sense of continuity. But...
AFRICA
EARLY WARNING | The Year the Earth Shifted on its Axis
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Road to Damascus is Paved with Ill-Intent
The Biblical conversion of Paul to Christianity “on the road to Damascus” implied a turning point for the onetime antagonist of Christ. But now the road to Damascus is an unmarked and uncertain path, full of treachery and hidden motives ...
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 03/2013
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Geostrategic Architecture: Suspended Belief
Even North Korea’s strategic brinkmanship has links to the Eastern Mediterranean/Northern Tier crises, but, with everyone so focused on their own geographic area of interest, nobody notices the big picture. It’s as though all beliefs have become suspended in bubbles of jargon.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 02/2013
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Complex Soup: The “Eastern-Mediterranean, Central-Asian, East Asian, Euro-Atlantic and Others” Unified Dilemma
A butterfly flaps its wings at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri in North Korea, and a political equation becomes a tidal wave in Tehran. It’s more complicated than that, but, yes, everything is related.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Africa: Mali, Nigeria, and the Bigger Picture
The Mali War will be neither simple nor quick, ‘though the players all wish it so.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
A Confluence of Events in the Horn of Africa
The announcement of the death of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi — possibly a month after he actually died — starts to focus the growing confluence of events in the Horn of Africa; events which show a profound watershed in the strategic situation along one of the most significant trade…
RESOURCES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Greece’s New Centrality — and Dilemmas — in Energy
An estimate of an area of key current significance — From Our Balkans Bureau
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.