SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria’s Multi-Layered Wars
Why Assad is gaining strength, and why the greater conflict is more complex than the Western media has grasped.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Pakistan’s Strategic Significance in a Transformed World
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Extracts from the Report by ISSA on the November 25, 2011, Parliamentary Elections in the Kingdom of Morocco
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
The Electronic Spectrum: The Binary Zimmerman
The historic and wider context of cyber warfare, and why it’s too important to let it be dominated by the technocrats
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
The Enduring Strategic Legacy of Four Global Revolutions
Why the agricultural, metal, monotheistic, and industrial revolutions will continue to shape mankind, long after the current economic downturn has been forgotten.
MIGRATION
The New Geopolitics of Urban Societies
How mass migration has changed population patterns, and how this has transformed the concept of sovereignty, and skewed policymaking priorities, jeopardizing national viability and national security
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 04/2011
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Special Operations in Africa: New World, New SpecOps
A look at Western options in the African context: the strategic framework, and the shape of future conflict on the Continent ...
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
As the World Changes: Cæsarism by Stealth
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Preparing for London’s Olympics
Security threats to the 2012 Olympics in London began to emerge the moment the International Olympic Committee awarded the games to the UK. Olympic security, meanwhile, is a strategic priority for the host.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Eastern Mediterranean as the Eye of the Hurricane
The crisis now focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean had Jimmy Carter’s overthrow of the Shah of Iran as its basis, and now centers around the competition — and cooperation — of Russia, Iran, Turkey, and the People’s Republic of China.
PERSONNEL