GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Labour Government, essentially impotent other than having a massive majority in the House of Commons, has legislated governance changes which are fundamentally anti-democratic and mark the further corrosion of the concept of sovereignty as a cornerstone of global strategic architecture.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Have I not told you, these recent years, that the cycle of great civilizational change is again upon us all? That, in the familiarity of days passing into days, the certainty of our lifetimes is being brought into a new world?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Restore Britain’s leader, Rupert Lowe, has created another nationalist party in the UK. But does it help his own cause since he appears to have done it to avenge his expulsion from the Reform UK party?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Where does Iran go from here? How is the global balance changed — and it is being changed — by the emerging collapse of the Iranian theocratic, revolutionary Government?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The collapse of communist China had become irrefutable as 2025 came to an end.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
An almost universal desire to avoid change — particularly unpleasant change — helps the Communist Party of China portray an image of business-as-usual…when it’s not.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
West Africa, despite a wave of political turmoil, ranging from coups and fragile democracies to insurgencies and secessionist movements, has maintained some of the continent’s most resilient democratic states.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Japan, with the fifth largest economy in the world, has begun its return to the world strategic stage after eight decades of penance, apology, and subordination to the US following Japan’s World War II defeat by the Allies.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The mainland China of the past 76 years is coming to an end. What will be the new China?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Iran has now lost its rationale for its war against Israel/US. But are Iran’s ruling clerics ready to seize the opportunity to transform their strategic posture, even when it means possibly saving the clerical administration? If not, then they risk overthrow or collapse to an ever-greater degree.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
President Erdogan’s new measures are leading to the politicization of the Turkish Armed Forces in order to control it to the fullest extent.