DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Obama’s Africa Turn
After his successful achievement of an accord with Iran, US Pres. Barack Obama belatedly starts moves to regain African ground from the PRC. Is it too little, too late?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Now Can Cyrus and Darius Be Recalled - The Persians, Not the Clerics, Begin to Revive
The July 14, 2015, major power accord with Iran was portrayed as the deliverance of the laws of the international community upon Iran. But it has delivered more consequences than any of the parties could have considered.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | Behold, the Sack of Europe Commences
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
National Security in a Totally Transformed Global Strategic Framework
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Finding a Vantage Point to See the Ukraine Crisis With Greater Balance
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Strategic Realities in the Post-Iran-Deal World
The tentative Iran “nuclear” deal does not stop Iran gaining nuclear weapons. But it does have unintended consequences of global significance.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Australian-Canadian Strategic Alignment May Extend to Defense Procurement
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategic Thinking: Ways to Think About the Future
Long-range planning — or at least a superficial view of it — is back in vogue, but modern societies are paying the price for their inattention to history, and the stove-piping of intellectual skills. So how can the “grand strategy” matrix be re-introduced before it’s too late?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
2015: The Year of Opportunity and Danger
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EN CLAIR | EU Moves Afoot to End the Sanctions Against Russia
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategic Policy: Sanctions Busting
Do sanctions work, or do they exacerbate conflict, in a multi-polar strategic environment? And who suffers most? Could it be the sanctioning states? French Pres. Hollande succumbed — at least temporarily — to US pressure on delivery of Mistral ships to Russia, which pays the price.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES