STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
HISTORY
Geography: We Are Where We Are
Geography is patently a critical factor in strategic thinking, not just because of the physical limitations and possibilities it unveils, but because of the psychological impact of geography upon its inhabitants.
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Sending Youth to War: Lessons from 1940
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Balkans in the Changing World
The Balkan states are gaining in strategic importance, particularly Serbia.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | Curfew Tolls the Knell of Parting Day
Have I not told you, these recent years, that the cycle of great civilizational change is again upon us all? That, in the familiarity of days passing into days, the certainty of our lifetimes is being brought into a new world?
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Revisiting the Fall of the Shah of Iran
Scott Anderson honed his skills as a war correspondent, but his new book, King of Kings, has a cinematic quality as it re-examines how the Shah of Iran, Mohamad Reza Pahlavi, fell from power in 1979.
HISTORY
Walwal to the World: Ethiopia, Empire, Abandoned Principles
How Italy’s strategic ambitions led to an end to the League of Nations and paved the way for World War II, the Cold War, and, indeed, the world of the 2020s.
HISTORY
Red Sea History is Today’s Framework
Sovereignty, Strategy, and the Red Sea: Ethiopia’s 1875-1876 War and the Return of Global Competition in North-East Africa.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Searching for “Democracy 2.0”, or Something Better?
The world is divided into those who think nothing can change the fundamental shape and trajectory of society, and those who think radical dislocation is already emerging. But now, more than at any time in the past 3 centuries, change is occurring, whether we wish to have a hand in shaping it, or not
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Agitprop Always Drives the Momentum Toward Strategic Ends
Agitprop ops are part of the psychological warfare spectrum, and part of the terrorism framework insomuch as they are intended to push public opinion toward a mass psychosis of fear, malleable to the responses needed by the perpetrator. But are Europeans “crying wolf” too much for their own good?
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | The Programs That Cemented US Power
Journalist Garrett Graff has authored 10 books, but his newest book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, is a book you should read and own.
HISTORY
Reinventing Nationalism
All of our philosophies and ideologies undergo transformation, whether we undertake this deliberately or through the accretion of history. But, at this time of strategic upheaval, there exists the prospect of consciously describing how future societies can be adapted.