SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Kurdistan May Yet Challenge Iran
Iran has succeeded as the midwife in dividing Iraq, but the growing power and autonomy of Iraqi Kurdistan may yet backfire on Tehran, and the US.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Complexity: the Yemen Fixation - Craving Clarity
Media, and political, hysteria over Yemen obfuscates a broader, deeper strategic matrix of long-term importance. Is the Western demand for simplicity, and the refusal to embrace complex context, at the core of Western strategic failure?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 12/2009
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Grand Strategy: Defense Science in the Post-Superpower World
Time for a fundamental re-thinking of priorities and context
PERSONNEL
Strategic Biographies - 10/2009
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 10/2009
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The 1992 Outlook: A New Era of Conflict
This study, by Gregory Copley, appeared in Defense & Foreign Affairs in May 1992. It noted, in that 1992 report, that contradictory trends and the revival of history as a strategic factor were among the significant indicators of the new era of global conflict then beginning.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Replacing Ahmadi-Nejad
Iran’s Clerical Leadership, Recovering from Ahmadi-Nejad’s Assault on it, Moves to Find a Replacement President
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Middle East: A Spy Story
The Pivotal Rôle of Abu-Abdallah al-Muhajer in Shaping a New Phase in the Palestinian and Anti-Israeli Conflicts
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Khamene’i Reportedly “in Coma”, Near Death
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS