SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | The Inevitable Global Evaporation of Trust
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 07/2023
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CALIR | Has Africa Abandoned Hope For Democracy?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
A New Eastern Mediterranean Strategic Matrix is Evolving
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Xi Jinping and the Galtieri Syndrome: Indicators of an Irrational War?
How do strategic planners prepare for what seem to be irrational decisions by a leader such as Xi Jinping, who is isolated from advice and is prepared to define the national interest in his own terms, regardless of the possible outcome?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Beijing “Talks”: On the Psychology of Strategic Incompetence
Regardless of the tactical milestones, is the outcome of the PRC-US conflict largely foretold?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Aliyu Mohammed Gusau at 80: A Guarantor of Nigeria
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2023
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Undoing Nixon in the Mid-East
The overthrow of Richard Nixon led post-Soviet Russia to dominance in the Middle East.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Constitutional Monarchy: A Defining Time for Monarchies
How a coronation raised the urgency of the strategic need for durable identity and purpose.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Proud Suicide of Türkiye
Türkiye, after its Presidential election, enhanced its negotiating position in the Great Game over Central Asia, but in all other metrics entered possible terminal strategic decline.