Albania
Balkans: Adriatic Sleight of Hand
Montenegro’s “religious freedom” law has become part of a pattern of East-West rivalry which includes US and EU attempts to see Moscow’s influence in Orthodoxy curtailed.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Information Dominance: Agitprop Meets the Social Media Age
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Global Strategy: The Critical “Phony War”
Beijing’s new war against the US and the West could be won or lost before kinetic actions get serious
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Ethiopia, Egypt: Yesterday’s Issues in Tomorrow’s World
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 04/2020
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Outlook Post-COVID-19: Re-Thinking Much of Africa
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
War in a Time of Weakness
The 2020 Fear Pandemic breakpoint has moved the world from “strategic competition” to semi-formal hostilities. It is now about strategic management in a period of economic and population decline.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The COVID-19 Wars: Strategic Warfare Amid Chaos, Threat, Opportunity
“[T]he only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” — Inaugural address of US Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933.
MIGRATION
EARLY WARNING | A New Generation of Population Warfare
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Pivot: Did NATO’s Serbian War Set the Stage for the Decline of Western Power?
Is the US only now starting to regain some of an element of strategic military impetus after the peaking of its capabilities and prestige became evident with the Clinton War against Serbia in 1999? The war spurred Beijing and Moscow into reviewing their defenses.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Beijing’s Strategic Support Force: The Key Focus of US Concern
Yes, 5G communications technology, where the PRC excels, is at the core of those concerns.
PERSONNEL