HISTORY
Sustaining Legacies
On the Passing of Sir Geoffrey Pattie, former UK Minister of State for Defence
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The Commonwealth’s Surprising Power and BRICS’ Fragility
CHOGM showed that the sun had not set on the British Empire, but that the Empire — now the Commonwealth — has prospered, and that the Crown, as head of it, has moved well beyond the grasp of the Government of the United Kingdom.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The Optimism of Possibly Reaching Bedrock?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Ramifications of UK Cession of the Chagos to Mauritius
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2024
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Looking at the Classic Autocracies ...
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Risk Averse? Risk Ignorant?
Calculating risk, opportunity, and context: how the failure of our policy tools contributes to the current collapse of the strategic balance. Changing times mean changing tools.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2024
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Is the Ethiopian War Saga Ending, or Just Beginning?
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | The origins and history of the US’s obsession to make its aerial ground attack weapons more “precise”
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Awakening From Dreams: Strategic Infrastructure Plans Which May Disappear
Great plans to transform global supply chain dominance have largely been destroyed by economic and political collapse, from Beijing to most Western capitals.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
All Fall Down…What’s Next?
Former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson said that a week was a long time in politics. The remainder of 2024 is, then, an eternity. Is there anywhere a respite from seemingly irrational instability?