STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
US Pres. Donald Trump tried his “Art of the Deal” approach to get Iranian leaders to the negotiating table. But Iran’s clerical leader has adopted a different approach, designed to ensure the continuation of the leadership, even if it means suffering through a war.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Beijing makes Taiwan denial a 2019 primary focus, while the US-led alliance slowly awakens.
SOVEREIGNTY
Indicators of emerging patterns of global significance
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Wealthy societies have always assumed that their wealth would guarantee them strategic victory. With wealth came the belief that its holder was imbued with superior wisdom, regardless of reality.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Continuation of the Australian constitutional monarchy model was seen as a critical benchmark as to whether the country was moving toward a consolidation of its sovereignty orientation.
PERSONNEL
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Forthcoming Struggles and Wars, According to Xi Jinping
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Beijing starts to frame a rationale and strategy for its New Thirty Years War with the United States.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
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?