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AFRICA
EARLY WARNING | The Year the Earth Shifted on its Axis
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Road to Damascus is Paved with Ill-Intent
The Biblical conversion of Paul to Christianity “on the road to Damascus” implied a turning point for the onetime antagonist of Christ. But now the road to Damascus is an unmarked and uncertain path, full of treachery and hidden motives ...
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Pakistan Post-Election: Some Ongoing Factors; Some New Openings
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Importance
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EARLW WARNING | Scuttling SSBNs: The Key to Britain’s Fortunes?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Geostrategic Architecture: Suspended Belief
Even North Korea’s strategic brinkmanship has links to the Eastern Mediterranean/Northern Tier crises, but, with everyone so focused on their own geographic area of interest, nobody notices the big picture. It’s as though all beliefs have become suspended in bubbles of jargon.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | DPRK Nuclear Detonation Was Almost Certainly for Iran
An estimate of an area of key current significance
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Complex Soup: The “Eastern-Mediterranean, Central-Asian, East Asian, Euro-Atlantic and Others” Unified Dilemma
A butterfly flaps its wings at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri in North Korea, and a political equation becomes a tidal wave in Tehran. It’s more complicated than that, but, yes, everything is related.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | What Happens if US Isolationism Re-Emerges?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
ESSENTIAL READING | Pivotal Persia
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Africa: Mali, Nigeria, and the Bigger Picture
The Mali War will be neither simple nor quick, ‘though the players all wish it so.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Mali: Center Stage
The international community finally began addressing the issue of Islamist fighters in Mali. This provided an opportunity for Nigeria, in particular, to rebuild its own security and political stability. But there was still no guarantee that the opportunity would be grasped.