GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
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Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance — From Defense & Foreign Affairs Canberra Correspondent
CRIME & CORRUPTION
Iran at Its Strategic Juncture
Iran, no less than the European Union or the United States, faces a series of problems which place it at a critical strategic junction. It now faces urgent challenges, the response to which will determine its viability — even its survival — over the coming decades.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
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Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategic Policy in an Age of Global Realignment
A Three-Part Presentation on Grand Strategy, the Global Condition and Outlook, and a Context for 21st Century Strategic Policy.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Logistics Strategy: Logistics on the New Battlefields of Global Politics and Conflict
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
East of Suez: Game Change
With Qadhafi and Mubarak now part of history, the Red Sea and Horn of Africa balance — where they had played key rôles — starts to take on a new shape. Now the debate on the future stability of the Red Sea-Suez SLOC and the Horn of Africa gains new impetus, as Eritrea’s Post-Isayas era dawns.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Re-Thinking the Paths to Conflict: A US Observation
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Israel and Iran: Still No War in Sight …
… But the Mosaic of Great Eurasian and Mediterranean Strategic Change Becomes More Clear
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria’s Multi-Layered Wars
Why Assad is gaining strength, and why the greater conflict is more complex than the Western media has grasped.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Military Doctrine: The Legacy of Coalition Warfare
US Defense reorganization means major doctrinal re-thinking, not just for the US, but for its Allies. The debate now begins on how to get back to sustainable — politically and economically — warfighting doctrines after the strategic failure of “overwhelming wealth”.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Terrorism and Geopolitics: The Release of Abu-Musab al-Suri
How the release from a Syrian prison of perhaps the most important jihadist ideologues reflects a delicate interplay between Iran, Syria, and the Sunni jihadist forces from Qatar, Turkey, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE