STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Global Trends: The Great Transition
The glacial drifts to and from autocracy
CRIME & CORRUPTION
Strategy: The Flood Formula
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Can Mass Indoctrination Save Xi Jinping?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The New Total War: The PLA Case for a Coup Against Xi?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | The Inevitable Global Evaporation of Trust
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 07/2023
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CALIR | Has Africa Abandoned Hope For Democracy?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
A New Eastern Mediterranean Strategic Matrix is Evolving
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Xi Jinping and the Galtieri Syndrome: Indicators of an Irrational War?
How do strategic planners prepare for what seem to be irrational decisions by a leader such as Xi Jinping, who is isolated from advice and is prepared to define the national interest in his own terms, regardless of the possible outcome?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Beijing “Talks”: On the Psychology of Strategic Incompetence
Regardless of the tactical milestones, is the outcome of the PRC-US conflict largely foretold?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRACTORIES | Taking Meaning — and Lessons — from Mutinies
Western analysts have been consistently keen to demonize Vladimir Putin, and predict his early departure. Wishful thinking is never good policy analysis. Assassinations and illness are always wild-cards and possibilities. But the Wagner episode was a mutiny in a teacup.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA