SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Paul Kennedy Endures
Important New Strategic Literature
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Iran and the Magical Theater of Nuclear Weapons
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Three Views of Naval Warfare
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Australia’s New Government: Ramifications for the Indo-Pacific
It is unlikely that a domestically-built Australian SSN will ever be launched. But, after about seven decades, the nuclear power debate is now on in Australia. So the Royal Australian Navy may acquire Virginia-class SSNs while Australian unmanned, autonomous submarines evolve.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Indo-Pacific: EABO and the Need for Speed
Strategic shock in the Pacific might occur as suddenly as it did in Ukraine. Who's ready?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Initial Strategic Lessons of the Russia-Ukraine War
Anything your adversary (a) wants you to do, (b) goads you to do, (c) offers to you as a gift, or (c) says you will do is almost certainly something you do not want to do. The Ukraine conflict was, by April 2022, offering a wide range of strategic, actical, and technological lessons.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Indonesia’s Uncertainties Pique Beijing’s Hopes
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Military Superiority versus Strategic Superiority
The People’s Liberation Army has made impressive gains. Does it matter?
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | We Have Seen Defense’s Enemy, and it is Inflation. Or is it?
“New Defense” industrial thinking, with far greater private sector engagement from new companies using newer technological approaches, is starting to mirror the success of the “New Space” sector. Defense bureaucracies, however, are slower to adopt such anti-inflationary thinking.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Russia Escalates Preparedness for Kinetic Space Operations
Most Western states, focus on considering ASAT countermeasures rather than offensive ASAT systems of their own, given the inherent danger of space debris impacting the space dominance of the West’s extensive orbital assets.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Strategic Deception: Beijing’s Potemkin Silos?
Are the PRC’s “new ICBM silo fields” just a major strategic deception operation aimed at pushing the US to commit precious dollars down the wrong path?
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY