SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria Marked an Historical Watershed, Hidden by Verbiage
The strategic landscape changes irrevocably daily. The events of Sept 10, 2013, were of such magnitude that they could not be retracted, even though, in the weeks which followed, there were strong words and gestures — as though nothing had changed — which seemed to give a sense of continuity. But...
AFRICA
EARLY WARNING | The Year the Earth Shifted on its Axis
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
ESSENTIAL READING | Persistent Lessons
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Road to Damascus is Paved with Ill-Intent
The Biblical conversion of Paul to Christianity “on the road to Damascus” implied a turning point for the onetime antagonist of Christ. But now the road to Damascus is an unmarked and uncertain path, full of treachery and hidden motives ...
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Geostrategic Architecture: Suspended Belief
Even North Korea’s strategic brinkmanship has links to the Eastern Mediterranean/Northern Tier crises, but, with everyone so focused on their own geographic area of interest, nobody notices the big picture. It’s as though all beliefs have become suspended in bubbles of jargon.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Complex Soup: The “Eastern-Mediterranean, Central-Asian, East Asian, Euro-Atlantic and Others” Unified Dilemma
A butterfly flaps its wings at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri in North Korea, and a political equation becomes a tidal wave in Tehran. It’s more complicated than that, but, yes, everything is related.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategic Affairs: No Contest
The US-Iran-Israel Stand-Off: No Conflict in Sight; But for the US, No Success for Embargoes; No Ability to Constrain Nuclear Weapons. The Real War is Between Iran and Turkey.