SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Defense Procurement: Politicization Without Performance
An estimate of an area of key current significance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Israel and Iran: Still No War in Sight …
… But the Mosaic of Great Eurasian and Mediterranean Strategic Change Becomes More Clear
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Economic Strategy: Making the Numbers Work
The Strategic Impact of Population Growth on Pakistan’s Agricultural, Energy and Economic Trends
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.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Terrorism and Geopolitics: The Release of Abu-Musab al-Suri
How the release from a Syrian prison of perhaps the most important jihadist ideologues reflects a delicate interplay between Iran, Syria, and the Sunni jihadist forces from Qatar, Turkey, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Pakistan’s Strategic Significance in a Transformed World
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.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 12/2011
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Global Outlook: Eight Strategic Factors to Consider in 2012
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Rôle of Secret Intelligence in British Foreign Policy
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Myanmar Becomes the Opening Gambit in the New US-PRC Maneuver
Washington potentially gains in Myanmar some of the strategic reach it lost in the Indo-Pacific balance — vis-à-vis the PRC — with the alienation of Pakistan. But the game has a long way to play ...