North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) - Defense and Foreign Affairs

DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES

Has the US Offensive Peaked?

In an evolving period of transformation, exacerbated by US global initiatives, everything has changed, but nothing has been resolved.

STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE

Canada’s Pivotal Role in the New Indo-Pacific

Canada is emerging as a major new factor in the Indo-Pacific as well as in polar strategic realities, particularly since the forced separation of Canada from its stagnant, seven decade-old security situation subordinate to the US.

ECONOMICS & BUSINESS

Trade Winds: The New Global Distribution Pattern, Again

Global trade route patterns are entering a period of massive change in 2026.

DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES

Has the Canada-US Strategic Split Become Irreversible?

And what does that mean for the next era of strategic alliances? A new NATO? A new period of diminished cooperation between the US and Mexico, the US and European NATO, and so on?

DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES

Has Türkiye Finally Been Forced Off the Fence? And for How Long?

DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES

Alliance Fracture is Now Global

It’s not just NATO; it’s the SCO, BRICS, and the Quad. And what of the UN?

Assassination illustrated in the Italian newspaper La Domenica del Corriere, July 12, 1914, by Achille Beltrame

CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA

STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Agitprop Always Drives the Momentum Toward Strategic Ends

Agitprop ops are part of the psychological warfare spectrum, and part of the terrorism framework insomuch as they are intended to push public opinion toward a mass psychosis of fear, malleable to the responses needed by the perpetrator. But are Europeans “crying wolf” too much for their own good?

DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES

The Collapse of the Treaty World

Treaties, including the “international rules-based world order” (or Pax Americana), the UN, the EU, and NATO are being dissolved, abandoned, or challenged. What comes next?