SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Terrain in the Turkey-Kurdish War
The Kurds are a key element in the current Syria-Turkey conflict, but remain little understood by international observers, with regard to their areas of diversity and unity. Here are some of the factors.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Australia opts for Forward Defense
Australia’s new Defence White Paper and associated policy papers provoke significant major power interest, largely because Australia is looking, for the first time, at forward projection of capability. But it faces enormous challenges in rebuilding its defense industrial capabilities.
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.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Libya at a Potential Tipping Point, Against the Jihadists
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The New Hitler; the New Chamberlain
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | ROC Leadership Change Highlights Beijing’s Priorities
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Strategic Centrality
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EN CLAIR | Indonesia, Turkey, Under Pressure, Push Defense Industries
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Transformative Global Strategic Trends: Their Impact on National Security in the Coming Decades
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.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria, Russia Dossier: Russia’s War Against DI’ISH
How Russia has planned and executed its expanded war against DI’ISH and the jihadist movements in Syria, and how Turkey and the US have been responding.