STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY

SECURITY, UNREST & WAR

What Does Beijing Do Now?

Presidential elections in Taiwan repudiated PRC pressure, just as protests in Hong Kong have done. Beijing hoped 2019 would be the year that all significant opposition to its strategic rise would be silenced.

STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY

Remembering Hal Colebatch, FSS

STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY

EARLY WARNING | Change, When it is Seen to Appear, is Sudden

STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY

EARLY WARNING | Do Ancient Aliens Drive Tomorrow's Events?

PERSONNEL

Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2019

STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY

EARLY WARNING | History, Man’s Season of Reckoning, Returneth

STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY

Why the Cycles of Conflict are Inevitable

STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY

EARLY WARNING | Democracy as Farce is the Prelude to Tyranny

STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE

The PRC’s Internal Conversation

Beijing starts to frame a rationale and strategy for its New Thirty Years War with the United States.

CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA

EARLY WARNING | The Triumph of Belief

STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY

Prestige = Legitimacy = Sovereignty = Power

DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES

Now It Gets Murky: How the US-DPRK Talks Can Evolve

Suddenly, the lights of the diplomatic theater dim, and a wider cast of players — more than initially indicated — move in the shadows. Until now, it has been a game of relatively honest posturing: brightly lit theater.