DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2024
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Societies Alike in Their Strategic Unhappiness
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Can AUKUS, Unrepaired, Succeed?
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
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2024
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Strategic Frameworks: Can There Be a “Post-Industrial Superpower”?
Is the West’s major problem that it has been deep into a utopian dream for decades?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Scramble for Antarctica
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
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Is Beijing’s Relative Position Declining in the Pacific?
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
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 04/2024
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
AUKUS: The Silence of the Silent Service
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
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Has the “China Collapse” Already Been a “Soft Landing”?
AUKUS alliance
Strategic Architecture: An Evolution in the Pacific
A new geopolitical bloc is forming in Oceania, and it may be strategically significant.