DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Next Strategic Advantage: the Restoration of Literacy
Perhaps the “experiment” in universal, forced literacy, has been a failure, an historical blip. Literacy is in retreat because of technology and because inquiring minds challenge leadership patterns. Yet intellectual capacity— signified by literacy— determines strategic success. What is to be done?
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Further Indicators of Türkiye’s Nuclear Weapons Ambitions
The Turkish defense complex keeps moving toward the nuclearization of its strategic capabilities, from nuclear powered submarines – SSNs or SSGNs – as well as nuclear weapons. And Israel seems set to confront Türkiye before this becomes an operational reality.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Is Türkiye Nuclear Ready?
Türkiye must now be considered a nuclear weapons state, or at least an incipient nuclear weapons state.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 12/2025
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 10/2025
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 08/2025
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Big One: India Versus Pakistan, 2025 Edition
A new Indo-Pak war may now be unavoidable, and this time it is a much bigger affair.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Is the PRC-India Proxy War in Pakistan Still on Course to Grow?
Was the Indian-orchestrated false-flag “terrorist attack” in Kashmir — to provide legitimacy for the launch of Operation Sindoor — premature? And did it indicate another strategic intelligence failure by India?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 04/2024
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Evaluating Warfare Through a Recent Lens
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Geopolitics: The Re-Shaped Middle East Is Transforming the World
Old concepts of “the Middle East” using various geographic models, or using Arab or Arabic or Muslim overlays, are now not representative of the “new Middle East” which is, for the first time in centuries, less definable than ever, by its name and by other simple descriptors.