DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The World’s Wars in Search of Meaning
In the longer-term, we are moving — unless strategic consideration is given — into an age bereft of history, identity, and considered values and goals.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 07/2025
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
The Collapse of the Treaty World
Treaties, including the “international rules-based world order” (or Pax Americana), the UN, the EU, and NATO are being dissolved, abandoned, or challenged. What comes next?
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | Uneasy Lies the Head that Advises the Crown
Does what we do make a positive difference in the life and history of our society? At what stage do we question what we may think are illogical or counter-productive orders or perceptions of a situation?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | Escaping the Strategic Impact of the Fevered Brain
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The Global Cratometamorphosis Is Underway
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 03/2025
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Trump’s Unsurprising Major Target: the Americas
It has to be assumed, by recent and past actions, that Pres. Trump feels that most of the old alliances are no longer functioning in US or even global interests, and that he has no problem walking away from them. But then what?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Prestige: Decider of Wars
More critical than the “correlation of forces” is the balance of prestige in “an ignoble world”.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Watching the Dust Settle on the Panama Canal Issue
The “changes” the US has seen with regard to the Panama Canal since the visit by Marco Rubio have been symbolic of a far greater US concentration than for many decades on the Americas, but the US will need more attention on its maritime supremacy to continue to keep Beijing on the defensive.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Dynamics of 2025
Has the “age of heroes” begun its return? Leaders replacing managers?