SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Saudi Arabia Throws Down the Gauntlet, But to Whom?
Saudi Arabia’s theater of mass executions on January 2, 2016, was designed to reinforce the authority of its leadership. It may bolster short-term objectives, but it also ended chances for an early end to the Yemen war; it further damaged relations with the US; and it bolstered Turkey’s and Iran’s…
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Does the US Have a Middle East Strategy Going Forward?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Saudi Coalition Moves Its War Across the Red Sea
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
RedMed: The Global Nexus at the Suez, Red Sea, and Horn of Africa
Why the RedMed Region is Becoming Increasingly Central to the Emerging Global Strategic Framework
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Russia, Syria, and the West: Finally at the Crossroads?
Russia has responded strenuously and unambiguously to the US, Turkish, Qatari, and Saudi provocations which began, and sustain, the war — and the Islamic Caliphate — in Syria.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Now Can Cyrus and Darius Be Recalled - The Persians, Not the Clerics, Begin to Revive
The July 14, 2015, major power accord with Iran was portrayed as the deliverance of the laws of the international community upon Iran. But it has delivered more consequences than any of the parties could have considered.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The End of the Arab-Israeli War, But Not the Fighting
It is possible to see that the “Arab-Israeli war” will only be sustained in that name by propaganda: the reality is that possibly only one Arab state — Qatar — is committed fully to the war, while HAMAS in the Palestinian Authority is also implacable.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Indian Ocean Shapes Up as the Dynamic Nexis of the 21st Century
SOVEREIGNTY
Yemen’s Crisis Takes on a New Strategic Dimension
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
2015: The Year of Opportunity and Danger
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS