STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Moving Beyond Strategic Distractions
The deep and intractable humanitarian morass of the Yemen conflict has diverted attention away from the broader strategic framework, with serious consequences.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
A New “Middle Eastern Entente” Shakes Moscow and Washington
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Changes in the Indian Ocean at the Core of the “New Balance”
Could the UK soon lose sovereignty over Diego Garcia? If so, the US would lose another key base in the Indo-Pacific. And how are Oman and Qatar planning for the future? Could the US even project force again into a major Afghan operation, or into Iraq?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 02/2019
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Global Balance: Strategic Self-Defeatism
How the US internal political war against such issues as the INF Treaty withdrawal and missile defense modernization mirrors historical schisms inviting the overthrow of sound governance
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The PRC’s Internal Conversation
Beijing starts to frame a rationale and strategy for its New Thirty Years War with the United States.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
On Which Our Fates Depend
Are the 2 emerging global pillars more at risk from themselves than from each other? Are we seeing the re-emergence of the world division into the maritime states versus the heartland powers? Could the PRC become the first true global heartland/maritime power? What are the three overriding factors?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | Self-Fulfilling Lunacies of Short-Termism
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Nagorno-Karabakh: A New US Priority?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Is “The New Thirty Years War” Already Escalating?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR