GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Burnham should be expected to have a brief “holiday” period before he is challenged by the opposition to call new elections, given that the Burnham Government had no mandate from the electorate.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
And what does that mean for the next era of strategic alliances? A new NATO? A new period of diminished cooperation between the US and Mexico, the US and European NATO, and so on?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
PERSONNEL
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Starmer’s exit is indicative of the political turmoil afflicting Western governments around the world as nationalism overtakes globalism.
HISTORY
A brief history of the oldest alliance in the world
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Global defense industrial thinking is becoming far more entrepreneurial and creative as major defense forces break with absolute strategic integration with the US, or any other major power.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
The Turkish defense complex keeps moving toward the nuclearization of its strategic capabilities, from nuclear powered submarines – SSNs or SSGNs – as well as nuclear weapons. And Israel seems set to confront Türkiye before this becomes an operational reality.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
How will Keir Starmer's resignation change the UK’s strategic direction? And, if so, in what way, and when?
HISTORY
The author of the 2026 book, Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret War, Sean Wiswesser, spent three decades as an officer of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), locked in covert combat with the three Russian intelligence services (RIS).
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Solomons situation is a significant one for the broader strategic framework and how it plays out over the coming two-plus years.