GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Could the growing schism between the societies which make up the nation-state and the state itself be at the core of the challenge to the 21st Century as populations now debate whether, and how, they can re-structure the Westphalian geopolitical matrix, perhaps one society at a time.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Failure to consider and plan for the greatest of global uncertainties means a guaranteed unreadiness to meet them.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The US continues to think of information operations today more in terms of the facilitating technologies, rather than the manipulation of social patterns and the underlying cultural patterns which shape governments and strategic outcomes.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
There are many in policy positions who — in all ages — are happy to dispense with grounded, independent, and deep, objective analysis. They want what they want, and they do not seek countervailing arguments to deter them. But it hardly plays into the goal of long-term societal success.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The most important, least invested, security priority
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
We have abused the language and words of power. Our glib misuse of them hurts us and obscures the lessons of history at a time when we desperately need guidelines.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Have I not told you, these recent years, that the cycle of great civilizational change is again upon us all? That, in the familiarity of days passing into days, the certainty of our lifetimes is being brought into a new world?