STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
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.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | What Happens if US Isolationism Re-Emerges?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | North Caucasus Takes Shape as an Early Obama Target
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Old Peking Alive
Important New Strategic Literature
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Turkey Stumbles, But Washington Pushed
The mid-October 2012 Turkish interception of an alleged Syrian military shipment was intended to build momentum for the case to intervene in Syria. But it backfired, and may have damaged US-Turkish trust, and given the upper hand to Moscow.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Re-Thinking Intelligence in an Age of Budget Decline
Can modern nation-states remain in command of their destinies if, in a time of extreme economic pressure, they fail to totally re-think approaches to intelligence functions?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | UnCivilization: Urban Geopolitics in a Time of Chaos
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs” — Remarks on the book by its author
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Psychological Strategy in the 21st Century
A look at how some aspects of the human condition remain constant through the changes in civilizational structures, and how some technological and geo-strategic evolutions will impact goal-setting, message content, and message-delivery and other aspects of psychological strategy.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Changes in Latitudes; Changes in Attitudes
Changes in the Global Strategic Architecture and their Ramifications for Sea Lane Security, with Particular Emphasis on the South China Sea Issue.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Global Strategic Architecture: A Very Different Global Pattern
Economic, social, political, and demographic changes are key drivers in what is a transforming global strategic architecture. This will necessitate a revision of existing power projection, trade, and intelligence priorities, structures, and doctrine to meet the emerging realities.
CRIME & CORRUPTION
Iran at Its Strategic Juncture
Iran, no less than the European Union or the United States, faces a series of problems which place it at a critical strategic junction. It now faces urgent challenges, the response to which will determine its viability — even its survival — over the coming decades.