STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
New Realities Emerging in the Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is the anvil of a new world. But what exactly is the new world?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The Heartbreak of Xi Jinping
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Gaming the Future
Important New Strategic Literature
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Beijing’s Alliance Busting
The People’s Republic of China faces adversaries on all sides. How should it react?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Test: How Washington Reacts Determines How the World Moves
And, in a unique period of change, the new US Administration is operating from old strategic perceptions, even as it adopts new technology and doctrine
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Indo-Pacific’s Changing Strategic Equilibrium
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Critical Infrastructure: Taking the Heart Out of the Heartland
Today, strategic infrastructure is vulnerable to all threats. Gaining control of populations may be the first goal of 21st Century total war before hostilities begin, but destroying enemy infrastructure is the first goal once shots are fired, or e-fired.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | US Moves on Taiwan Claw Back Key Strategic Options
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The US and the World: In With the Old; Out with the New
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Amphibious Operations in a New Era of Offensive Total War
The world has begun its move back to an era of offensive warfare after some seven decades of defensive strategic thinking. One of the sharp points of power projection is expeditionary warfare, so a new era of amphibious warfare thinking must now occur.
Australia
ESSENTIAL READING | Over the Beach Again
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
And Then, What? Looking Beyond the Urgent
Strategic Planning: The fate of the current and anticipated global balance is being decided. The inevitable “rise of China” is no longer inevitable. It is over. But then?