CRIME & CORRUPTION
The Third Border: The US’ Challenge in the Caribbean
A passports-for-sale scandal in Dominica revealed an interesting global corruption network, and a PRC intelligence focus on the “third US Border” in the Caribbean.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 12/2016
ASIA
EN CLAIR | Is Australia Ready to Abandon Its French Submarine Program?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions - 07/2016
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Australia opts for Forward Defense
Australia’s new Defence White Paper and associated policy papers provoke significant major power interest, largely because Australia is looking, for the first time, at forward projection of capability. But it faces enormous challenges in rebuilding its defense industrial capabilities.
SOVEREIGNTY
South-East Asia’s Dilemma
Has ASEAN and its allies left it too late to counter the PRC’s oceanic expansion?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
RedMed: The Global Nexus at the Suez, Red Sea, and Horn of Africa
Why the RedMed Region is Becoming Increasingly Central to the Emerging Global Strategic Framework
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 01/2015
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Ukraine: A New Blackness on the Black Sea
The US Obama Administration’s handling of the MH-17 disaster in Ukraine risks dragging the US’ allies into an irreversible strategic posture.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Boko Haram: A New Textbook Case in Handling Civil Unrest?
Is the northern Nigerian Boko Haram movement being defeated by the Nigerian Armed Forces, or are the Armed Forces being destroyed by Boko Haram? The answer may be neither, either, both, or something else again. But the issue is of profound importance to Nigeria, Africa, and the world.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EN CLAIR | Indonesia Steps Up Defense Modernization
A Report on an Issue of Strategic Importance
ASIA
Can Abe Revive Japan?
Japan has the tools to transform its strategic position, from resource exploitation to nuclear weapons. To a significant degree, the matter is now very much in the hands of one man: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.