STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
New Realities Emerging in the Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is the anvil of a new world. But what exactly is the new world?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | UK-Australia: A Long Way to Go
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The Heartbreak of Xi Jinping
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2021
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Gaming the Future
Important New Strategic Literature
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | Beijing’s Indonesia Strategy
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Beijing’s Alliance Busting
The People’s Republic of China faces adversaries on all sides. How should it react?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Indo-Pacific’s Changing Strategic Equilibrium
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Run Silent, Run Sometime. Please
Australia is running into a new “submarine gap”, and a submarine budget which severely distorts its defense budget and strategic profile. What is to be done?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Anglosphere, Commonwealth, or CANZUK? Britain’s Choice
What builds enduring strategic alliances, blocs, and empires? “The enemy of my enemy” may be a friend, but for how long? And under what circumstances?
HISTORY
Strategic Frameworks: The World After Westphalia
Global cyclical change led to a gradual shift from monarchies and empires to republics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But the cyclical age of “democratic republics” is now itself passing, as the world moves again from defensive to offensive posturing.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Isolating the Tatmadaw May Just Be What Beijing Desires
Washington, in 2011, almost missed its first chance in 50 years to secure a break in the PRC’s dominance over Myanmar. Any strident US moves to insist on the installation of an NLD Government might just reverse everything...