HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | How Much Longer Can “Stealth” Provide an Advantage?
An Estimate of an area of key current significance. By Gregory R. Copley
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | The First Open Challenge of the Trump Era: Serbia and Kosovo?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Cock-Crow of Strategic Change
The Year of the Rooster may be the cock-crow of the dawn of a new strategic cycle.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | Byzantium. Turkex. Chaos.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Turkey’s Trident: Erdoğan’s Moves to Dominate the Black Sea
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.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | Serbian PM Gambles on EU Entry
Reports on Issues of Current Strategic Importance
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Air Power: Resolving the F-35 Nightmare
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Turkey’s Gamble to Save Itself
Turkey considers direct military confrontation in Syria as Ankara stares strategic defeat in the face.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategy: To Win is to Change, and in Many Ways
Almost all decisive strategic victories — winning the peace, not just the battle — derive from the adoption of game-changing capabilities, as well as strategic depth. Competing through linear development of old approaches is expensive and dangerous, especially when budgets are tight.
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Books Which Can Change Us, and History
SOVEREIGNTY
The Ukraine Crisis: The Changing Black Sea Balance, and its Broader Impact
The inevitable return of Crimea to Russia, and the strategic consequences in the Black Sea region, the Caucasus and Northern Tier, for NATO, the Mediterranean, and, well, everywhere ...
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Pakistan in a Totally Transformed World
Pakistan’s strategic context transformed with the start of a new war in Afghanistan in 2001. It is now emerging into the “post-Afghan War”, Post-US Years, which will transform it yet again. But what will this entail?