GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Dynamics of 2025
Has the “age of heroes” begun its return? Leaders replacing managers?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Surviving the Coming Calm...
… after the watershed of the US November 5, 2024, elections
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Recalibrating AUKUS (and FiveEyes) in the Second Trump Era?
Incoming Pres. Trump’s main challenge is not how to make the two key strategic alliances merge, but finding leaders in all the four other states who can see the strategic potential of the FiveEyes/AUKUS combine. There may be some blood on the floor as he jostles to get the outcome right.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 12/2024
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Who Lost the Pacific?
Great power paternalism finally has its answer. The Pacific states themselves may be taking their region back.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Restoring Canada’s Credibility Within FiveEyes
Canada is on the verge of emerging from a long nightmare of strategic decline as the present Trudeau Government faces imminent destruction. But how quickly can this country, once with the world’s third-largest navy and a mighty aerospace industry, restore its credibility?
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Hogs, Oceans, Liberty, and Victory!
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
AUKUS: Awakening to a Different World
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Nuclear Weapons 2.0: The Twilight World Tour?
Nuclear proliferation, which the West and the USSR attempted to limit, occurred notwithstanding, and this has rendered the original tenets of nuclear deterrence moot, while the evolution of new weapons and countermeasures is far more significant in pushing nuclear weapons toward meaninglessness.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Ramifications of UK Cession of the Chagos to Mauritius
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2024
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY