PERSONNEL
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
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 02/2013
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Coming to Grips with The World
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | There’s Something Wrong ...
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Australia: A Putsch in Progress in Canberra?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Alexander Haig: Unsung Hero
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Complex Soup: The “Eastern-Mediterranean, Central-Asian, East Asian, Euro-Atlantic and Others” Unified Dilemma
A butterfly flaps its wings at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri in North Korea, and a political equation becomes a tidal wave in Tehran. It’s more complicated than that, but, yes, everything is related.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR