STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The overarching strategic US-PRC trajectory seems largely unchanged: the PRC in continued decline and the US in continued strategic consolidation. US allies are making separate plans to manage their strategic space to a greater degree.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Everything is connected, and it’s starting to become clear with the US strategic operations.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Did the US have no concrete follow-on plan to restore Iran as a stable ally of the US in the region, as it had been during the US Nixon Administration (1969-74)?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The US Trump Administration has possibly approached its zenith. So what’s next?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Balkan states are gaining in strategic importance, particularly Serbia.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Few things have shaken the leaders of the Communist Party of China (CCP) as much as the US/Israeli war against Iran.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Looking at the future from within the now-maturing maelstrom of trends and actions which are shaping the next strategic era and the probable new “rules-based world order”.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Why were so few states prepared for the major strategic breakpoints over the past 50 years, when Defense & Foreign Affairs had consistently laid out just why change was occurring?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The United States may, within a decade, have completed its move from being “the indispensable nation” — whatever that means — to becoming isolated, even as it remains the world’s sole superpower.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
It is not as though 2025 was an inconsequential year. Many strategic trends came into focus, particularly around the (finally) visible collapse of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). But 2026 will see the clarification of even more events of global consequence.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Ankara’s strategic balancing act is coming to an end, but can it achieve regional dominance before the cash and support runs out? Will the President risk conflict to forestall collapse?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Trump Doctrine will attract dismissal, but it is highly informative and important.