CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Former Iranian Foreign Minister Zahedi Honored
A tribute.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2013
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Victory in Syria: But For Whom?
The US White House, under President Barack Obama, was, by the end of May 2013, considering how to begin more direct engagement in the fighting inside Syria.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Egypt’s Instability Triggers a New Proxy War Against Ethiopia and its Allies
A Report on an Issue of Strategic Importance
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
ESSENTIAL READING | Persistent Lessons
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
South Sudan: Now It’s a Case of the West Misunderstanding Juba
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Road to Damascus is Paved with Ill-Intent
The Biblical conversion of Paul to Christianity “on the road to Damascus” implied a turning point for the onetime antagonist of Christ. But now the road to Damascus is an unmarked and uncertain path, full of treachery and hidden motives ...
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 03/2013
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Tortuous Politics in the Americas
The US White House and Cuba appear to cooperate against a common enemy: US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Australian Government Implodes
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Geostrategic Architecture: Suspended Belief
Even North Korea’s strategic brinkmanship has links to the Eastern Mediterranean/Northern Tier crises, but, with everyone so focused on their own geographic area of interest, nobody notices the big picture. It’s as though all beliefs have become suspended in bubbles of jargon.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | DPRK Nuclear Detonation Was Almost Certainly for Iran
An estimate of an area of key current significance