SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
MIGRATION
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Strategic Power's Inverse Relationship to Population Increase
One of the remaining myths to be punctured in assessing strategic power and strength is the widely-entrenched belief that national economic growth is directly proportional to population growth and population size.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EARLY WARNING | Farewell, China Dream. Hello, Cold Dawn
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Coup d’État as a “Democratic Response” to Pseudo-Coup
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09-2023
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
One BRIC at a Time
The Africa-Middle East space and the implications of the BRICS expansion and rising instability: it’s all about perception, and perception counts.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
The New Total War Economy
How can Xi Jinping, without a strategy or an economic philosophy, promise a war without a war economy?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The New Scramble in Africa
Now the fruits of Africa’s new era of coups are apparent, not just with the coup in Niger, but also with the other recent coups and “non-constitutional” changes of government.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Has the West Abandoned Central Asia, and Vice-Versa?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 08/2026
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | More Taiwan Gaming
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Global Trends: The Great Transition
The glacial drifts to and from autocracy