RESOURCES
AFRICA
EARLY WARNING | The Year the Earth Shifted on its Axis
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Margaret Thatcher, and How Victory is Achieved
A tribute.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Australia’s New Defence White Paper
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
South Sudan: Now It’s a Case of the West Misunderstanding Juba
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
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Alexander Haig: Unsung Hero
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategic Analysis: Advising, Forecasting, and Group-Think
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.