SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Ankara has placed itself deliberately on an all-or-nothing path which envisages only Turkish strategic dominance, lightly disguised by attempts to diplomatically hold the international community at bay as it prepares its ground.
PERSONNEL
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Any pretense that Turkey is not at war with Russia, or that it does not have strategic ambitions from Western Europe to China, are being dispelled as the Turkish President creates Sunni jihadi groups and military alliances which directly challenge NATO and China.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
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.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Do sanctions work, or do they exacerbate conflict, in a multi-polar strategic environment? And who suffers most? Could it be the sanctioning states? French Pres. Hollande succumbed — at least temporarily — to US pressure on delivery of Mistral ships to Russia, which pays the price.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The US White House seemed ready to risk war over Ukraine, and staged an expensive “sound and light” African Summit, all in order to impact the mid-term US Congressional elections, coming up in November 2014.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Mali War will be neither simple nor quick, ‘though the players all wish it so.