PERSONNEL
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Margaret Thatcher, and How Victory is Achieved
A tribute.
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.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Syrian Acquisition of Iraqi Chemical Weapons Noted in 2002; Qatar Now Reported Entering WMD Market
All is not as it seemed with the international media reporting in early December 2012 of the Syrian Government’s alleged preparation of sarin-based chemical weapons for (presumed) use against domestic insurgents.
RESOURCES
Energy: the Driver of the Grand Strategy of the PRC
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The New Strategic Framework Begins to Emerge in the Middle East as Iran Surges, and the US Resiles
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Eurasian Strategic Matrix: Europe’s Latest Tinder-Box
From Broadbrush Historic Mega-Trends to Imperative Concrete Regional Undertakings
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.