Germany - Defense and Foreign Affairs

CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA

EARLY WARNING | Winning the War of Words Means Knowing When to Fall Silent

PERSONNEL

Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 07/2026

Equatorial Guinea Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said on June 16, 2026, that the Government of Prime Minister Manuel Osa Nsue Nsua had resigned after “failing to meet its objectives”.

GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS

A Vortex of Decline Affecting Government Across the West

Starmer’s exit is indicative of the political turmoil afflicting Western governments around the world as nationalism overtakes globalism.

Assassination illustrated in the Italian newspaper La Domenica del Corriere, July 12, 1914, by Achille Beltrame

CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA

STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Agitprop Always Drives the Momentum Toward Strategic Ends

Agitprop ops are part of the psychological warfare spectrum, and part of the terrorism framework insomuch as they are intended to push public opinion toward a mass psychosis of fear, malleable to the responses needed by the perpetrator. But are Europeans “crying wolf” too much for their own good?

General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

HISTORY

Officers, Fit to Command? The Hammerstein-Equord Quadrant, while not novel, still works

The German general, Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord (1878-1943), is known to posterity as the Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr, the armed forces of Germany’s Weimar Republic (1918-33).