SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | What Happens if US Isolationism Re-Emerges?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | North Caucasus Takes Shape as an Early Obama Target
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Africa: Mali, Nigeria, and the Bigger Picture
The Mali War will be neither simple nor quick, ‘though the players all wish it so.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Mali: Center Stage
The international community finally began addressing the issue of Islamist fighters in Mali. This provided an opportunity for Nigeria, in particular, to rebuild its own security and political stability. But there was still no guarantee that the opportunity would be grasped.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Emerging Trends: Practical Implications of De-Urbanization
“All cities are parasites, feeding off their agricultural hinterlands, but the cities that thrive best develop a relationship with their hinterland which over time becomes distinctly more symbiotic than parasitic.”1
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
The Transition Beyond Strategic Nuclear War
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 10/2012
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | UnCivilization: Urban Geopolitics in a Time of Chaos
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs” — Remarks on the book by its author
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
In Memoriam: Elkana Galli
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The New 9/11 Attacks: A Self-Fulfilling Prophesy
The surge in jihadist attacks on US diplomatic missions in September 2012 largely obscured the complex realities around a number of individual incidents and locales, particularly with regard to the Libyan situation.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Psychological Strategy in the 21st Century
A look at how some aspects of the human condition remain constant through the changes in civilizational structures, and how some technological and geo-strategic evolutions will impact goal-setting, message content, and message-delivery and other aspects of psychological strategy.