STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Global Architecture: Xi in Arabia
It was more consequential than Washington realized. But now the battle has been joined.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 12/2022
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Iran: Death Before Disorder
Iran's clerics are suppressing protests with unprecedented vigor. But then what?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
ESSENTIAL READING | Trust? In South Asia?
Important New Strategic Literature
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Military Doctrine: “Drones” in Modern Warfare
Unmanned aerial vehicles help shape battlefields. But how much more do we know?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Global Situation Report: Calm in the Eye of the Storm
China’s communists have now placed their fate, and the fate of China’s unwilling people, firmly in the hands of one man. The probable result is the deliberate implosion of mainland China’s economy, a key catalyst in an already unstable global strategic architecture.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Samarkand: A Global Change with Washington Out in the Cold
A subtle shift in the global balance has occurred, without direct US input.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 08/2022
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | How India Got to 2022
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Military Conflict Evolves, and with It, Uncertainty
Armed conflicts are now more likely to occur, but warfighting lessons — from Russia-Ukraine and the PRC-ROC/US — are still incomplete, and outcomes uncertain.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The Ceremonial Decapitation of a Dead Terrorist
Al-Qaida’s revival must be considered unlikely. The very expensive assassination of Dr al-Zawahiri must be considered nostalgic strategic tokenism. It didn’t alter the strategic equation at all.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY