SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria Marked an Historical Watershed, Hidden by Verbiage
The strategic landscape changes irrevocably daily. The events of Sept 10, 2013, were of such magnitude that they could not be retracted, even though, in the weeks which followed, there were strong words and gestures — as though nothing had changed — which seemed to give a sense of continuity. But...
SOVEREIGNTY
EARLY WARNING | The Twilight of the European Union
RESOURCES
How Would the World Change if the International Energy Trade Transformed?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Road to Damascus is Paved with Ill-Intent
The Biblical conversion of Paul to Christianity “on the road to Damascus” implied a turning point for the onetime antagonist of Christ. But now the road to Damascus is an unmarked and uncertain path, full of treachery and hidden motives ...
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EARLW WARNING | Scuttling SSBNs: The Key to Britain’s Fortunes?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Tortuous Politics in the Americas
The US White House and Cuba appear to cooperate against a common enemy: US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez
RESOURCES
Strategic Philosophy | Holy Water
Napoleon said that an army marched on its stomach. But he lost most of his Grande Armée to disease, much of it the result of poor water and sanitation. The army marched on its stomach, but it was defeated by its water.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EARLY WARNING | Drone Warfare? Drone Minds, More Likely
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Alexander Haig: Unsung Hero
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Complex Soup: The “Eastern-Mediterranean, Central-Asian, East Asian, Euro-Atlantic and Others” Unified Dilemma
A butterfly flaps its wings at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri in North Korea, and a political equation becomes a tidal wave in Tehran. It’s more complicated than that, but, yes, everything is related.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | Survival is Fundamental; Only Methods Change
Gregory R. Copley, in the Fifth Decade of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”