GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Changes in Latitudes; Changes in Attitudes
Changes in the Global Strategic Architecture and their Ramifications for Sea Lane Security, with Particular Emphasis on the South China Sea Issue.
RESOURCES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Greece’s New Centrality — and Dilemmas — in Energy
An estimate of an area of key current significance — From Our Balkans Bureau
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategic Policy in an Age of Global Realignment
A Three-Part Presentation on Grand Strategy, the Global Condition and Outlook, and a Context for 21st Century Strategic Policy.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Carriers Rise on a Floating Tide, but so do Countermeasures
An estimate of an area of key current significance
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 04/2012
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Logistics Strategy: Logistics on the New Battlefields of Global Politics and Conflict
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
A Jihadist, Anti-Western Agenda is Being Forced on Syria
The international community has been blindly following a jihadist-driven agenda for Syria; a solution the majority of Syrians reject, but which Turkey and Qatar have been driving.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Vital Strategic Debate: Who, in the West, Lost Africa?
An estimate of an area of key current significance
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
Military Doctrine: The Legacy of Coalition Warfare
US Defense reorganization means major doctrinal re-thinking, not just for the US, but for its Allies. The debate now begins on how to get back to sustainable — politically and economically — warfighting doctrines after the strategic failure of “overwhelming wealth”.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategic Affairs: No Contest
The US-Iran-Israel Stand-Off: No Conflict in Sight; But for the US, No Success for Embargoes; No Ability to Constrain Nuclear Weapons. The Real War is Between Iran and Turkey.