CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Libya’s Gathering and Critical Jihad
What are Libya’s, and the international community’s, options in the face of the Islamic Caliphate’s growing rôle in Libya? The pace of the conflict there has broadened following a “mega-merger” of jihadist groups under the Caliphate’s banner.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Turkey: Poised at the Abyss
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The New Hitler; the New Chamberlain
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | ROC Leadership Change Highlights Beijing’s Priorities
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 02/2016
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
ESSENTIAL READING | Whither Europe?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The RedMed: All Change, Again, on the Red Sea
The People’s Republic of China begins its Djibouti troop deployment as base construction accelerates; meanwhile, Djibouti builds on its rapprochement with Riyadh.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The US Heads, Without a Plan, Into its Most Vital Election
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Syria, Russia Dossier II: The Putin-Netanyahu Duet
Israel and Russia continue their strategic cooperation, despite pressures from the Obama White House to force Israel back into rapprochement with Turkey to help preserve energy supplies to that country as it faces a Russian economic sanctions regime.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Saudi Arabia Throws Down the Gauntlet, But to Whom?
Saudi Arabia’s theater of mass executions on January 2, 2016, was designed to reinforce the authority of its leadership. It may bolster short-term objectives, but it also ended chances for an early end to the Yemen war; it further damaged relations with the US; and it bolstered Turkey’s and Iran’s…
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR