PERSONNEL
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2025
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Malaysia’s New Elected King
Malaysia crowned a new king on January 31, 2024, and he promises — like King Charles III in the UK — to add new dynamism to the monarchy, and re-define its rôle.
AUKUS alliance
Strategic Architecture: An Evolution in the Pacific
A new geopolitical bloc is forming in Oceania, and it may be strategically significant.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 10/2023
SOVEREIGNTY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Why Australia Shrinks From Sovereignty and Leadership
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
A Wargame Postulating an Initial “Battle of Taiwan”
The Washington think-tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), recently held a revealing wargaming exercise on a PRC invasion of Taiwan.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | Truly, Son of Apollo
Important New Strategic Literature
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Beijing's Revival of Its Eswatini War
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Jakarta: Balancing, Yet Moving
Indonesia's movement toward greater regional economic and strategic power is showing success, and it is occurring with excruciating care to balance its position between superpowers.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The New “Go” Complexity of the Global “Great Game”
The chess-board of Central Asia’s “Great Game” was transformed into the intense complexity of the ancient Chinese game of Go — Weiqi — when the collapse of the latest phase of the eternal Afghan wars sent the consequences virally through global security frameworks.