STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Assessing Long-Term Threats and Trends
The most important, least invested, security priority
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
How the New Multi-Polar Defense Industrial World Drives Geopolitical Evolution
Global defense industrial thinking is becoming far more entrepreneurial and creative as major defense forces break with absolute strategic integration with the US, or any other major power.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Is North Korea in Play?
Just as the West did not want to believe the old Cold War was over, and its players changed, so it does not wish to consider North Korea a non-communist state. But it truly may be. What is it, and how can the strategic equation now be re-evaluated?
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Global Defense Procurement Patterns Set to Change Massively
It seems likely that the US share of the global defense marketplace will begin to peak within the next few years, and then enter a period of decline.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 07/2025
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 02/2025
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 01/2025
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Evaluating Warfare Through a Recent Lens
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | Maritime Strategy
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The New Total War: The PLA Case for a Coup Against Xi?
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.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
China: Beijing’s Brave Face
Beijing’s latest forecasts are a breathtaking disguise for the abyss which it faces.