HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
New Chengdu Aircraft Challenges Distant Targets
David Archibald looks at the significance of the new, long-range strike aircraft.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Recalibrating AUKUS (and FiveEyes) in the Second Trump Era?
Incoming Pres. Trump’s main challenge is not how to make the two key strategic alliances merge, but finding leaders in all the four other states who can see the strategic potential of the FiveEyes/AUKUS combine. There may be some blood on the floor as he jostles to get the outcome right.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Restoring Canada’s Credibility Within FiveEyes
Canada is on the verge of emerging from a long nightmare of strategic decline as the present Trudeau Government faces imminent destruction. But how quickly can this country, once with the world’s third-largest navy and a mighty aerospace industry, restore its credibility?
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Hogs, Oceans, Liberty, and Victory!
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
AUKUS: Awakening to a Different World
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Nuclear Weapons 2.0: The Twilight World Tour?
Nuclear proliferation, which the West and the USSR attempted to limit, occurred notwithstanding, and this has rendered the original tenets of nuclear deterrence moot, while the evolution of new weapons and countermeasures is far more significant in pushing nuclear weapons toward meaninglessness.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Ending Iran’s Nuclear Façade
Major Western powers have for some time hidden their knowledge that Iran has already developed, tested, and deployed nuclear warheads for its strategic missiles. It is now critical to acknowledge the true position, and to assess the likelihood of their use.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | The origins and history of the US’s obsession to make its aerial ground attack weapons more “precise”
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
2024: Tactical Nuclear Weapons
The years 2022-24 have seen increased talk of battlefield nuclear warfare, but little discussion of actual doctrine or approach. One of the great pioneers of nuclear strategy and doctrine, Dr Stefan Possony, developed doctrine after World War II which has been forgotten today.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Transforming Turkish Defenses Now Also Geared to Israel
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | The Musk Phenomenon
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
What If Xi Jinping Could Attempt Formal Taiwan Conflict in 2024?
The only logic which needs to be understood at this stage is that of Communist Party of China General Secretary Xi Jinping.