DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Are Cracks Appearing in Erdoğan’s “Century of Türkiye” Plan?
Turkish interference in Azerbaijani affairs is deepening rifts among Turkic states and wider Eurasia.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
ESSENTIAL READING | Sanctions as a Weaponized Chokepoint
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Is Trumpism Driving Global Political Trends, or Merely Reflecting Them?
Is the move toward “conservative” governance in the Americas (the Western Hemisphere) a result of Trumpism, or is Trumpism a reflection of the anti-globalist, anti-government wave sweeping much of the world?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2026
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Geopolitics: The Baseline Discipline of Strategy
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Is the US Losing the Middle East? Has it Already Lost it?
President Trump has alienated not only some of the Persian Gulf states, but also Israel, damaging what had been an unbeatable support base for him and the US.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
How Will the US Deal with Embraer’s C-390?
Embraer is now a fully-diversified aerospace company, and far better able to negotiate its position with the United States going forward than it was when it began its original negotiations with Boeing in around 2014.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Cardiff Memorandum is Reflective of British Strategic Decline
Doubling down on an increasingly outdated ideological status quo while simultaneously failing to provide solutions to Britain’s rapidly deteriorating economic and social situation is only likely to further fan the flames of separatism and division.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Path to Strategic Hell is Paved with Unguarded Rhetoric
There is little logic — and much gambling — at play in all the conflicts now emerging.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
All Fall Down: Is Civilizational Collapse Even Worth Considering?
Failure to consider and plan for the greatest of global uncertainties means a guaranteed unreadiness to meet them.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Military Aircraft Manufacturing Proliferation Creates a New Age of Alliance
Remaking the military aerospace market is very much a part of remaking the global strategic architecture. What is happening now takes us back to mid-20th Century frameworks and, increasingly, to a revived multi-polar world.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR