DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Failure to plan equals planning to fail. So goes the mantra of businessmen, statesmen, and warriors. Can greatness of outcome be guaranteed without greatness of vision and articulated goals?
PERSONNEL
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Is the West’s major problem that it has been deep into a utopian dream for decades?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Barriers are coming down to unilateral power projection around the world as treaties and prestige decline for major powers. Now, Antarctica becomes truly an area of competition.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Internal challenges within the US and the PRC seem more likely than external events to determine the overall outcome of their strategic competition, but the broader Pacific context now seems to be nudging incrementally in favor of the US/Western position.
PERSONNEL
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
AUKUS was conceived to deliver nuclear power to Australian submarine capabilities. The treaty is emerging as a strategic success … except for achieving its primary purpose.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
AUKUS alliance
A new geopolitical bloc is forming in Oceania, and it may be strategically significant.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Prabowo has repeatedly said that Indonesia’s democratic system was not working, and that the country should return to its 1945 constitution. Even so, the US may continue to woo Indonesia with advanced military equipment.
PERSONNEL
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Australia’s “apartheid” referendum and New Zealand’s election have consequences.