DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Transforming military technology coupled with geopolitical realignments are starting to clarify the conditions for a clean-sheet re-evaluation of the US-Canada strategic framework, currently governed by a politically dysfunctional NORAD (North American Air Defense) alliance.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
And what does that mean for the next era of strategic alliances? A new NATO? A new period of diminished cooperation between the US and Mexico, the US and European NATO, and so on?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Significant improvements in the sophistication and general capabilities of South-East Asian nations, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, have relegated Australia’s historical strategic and miliary dominance of the region to a reduced significance.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The most important, least invested, security priority
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Global defense industrial thinking is becoming far more entrepreneurial and creative as major defense forces break with absolute strategic integration with the US, or any other major power.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
The Turkish defense complex keeps moving toward the nuclearization of its strategic capabilities, from nuclear powered submarines – SSNs or SSGNs – as well as nuclear weapons. And Israel seems set to confront Türkiye before this becomes an operational reality.
RESOURCES
The AI and EV bubbles seem headed out of fashion in perhaps a year or two, reducing the distortion they have created in the energy and raw materials markets, and thus transforming the basic elements of the balance of power.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Our current pace of strategic change continues to overwhelm us to the point where it is often difficult to break down the areas of change attributable to technologies – such as artificial intelligence (AI) – and geopolitical moves from an age of globalism back to an age of nationalism.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
It seems likely that the US share of the global defense marketplace will begin to peak within the next few years, and then enter a period of decline.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Türkiye must now be considered a nuclear weapons state, or at least an incipient nuclear weapons state.