PERSONNEL
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Lessons from the Fall of France
Important New Strategic Literature
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.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Maghreb: Can Libya Repel the Invaders and Survive?
Libyans went, on July 7, 2012, into their first national elections in decades, and foreign observers hailed the fact that democracy had returned to the Maghreb state.
CRIME & CORRUPTION
Iran at Its Strategic Juncture
Iran, no less than the European Union or the United States, faces a series of problems which place it at a critical strategic junction. It now faces urgent challenges, the response to which will determine its viability — even its survival — over the coming decades.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EN CLAIR | Prince Bandar Takes Saudi Intelligence Leadership
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | The Atlantic Vacuum; the Pacific “Full Sea”
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”
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.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Egypt’s Dilemma Likely to Hit Vital Trade SLOCs
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance — A Defense & Foreign Affairs Staff Report
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Carriers Rise on a Floating Tide, but so do Countermeasures
An estimate of an area of key current significance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Logistics Strategy: Logistics on the New Battlefields of Global Politics and Conflict
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
East of Suez: Game Change
With Qadhafi and Mubarak now part of history, the Red Sea and Horn of Africa balance — where they had played key rôles — starts to take on a new shape. Now the debate on the future stability of the Red Sea-Suez SLOC and the Horn of Africa gains new impetus, as Eritrea’s Post-Isayas era dawns.