STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Egypt’s Instability Triggers a New Proxy War Against Ethiopia and its Allies
A Report on an Issue of Strategic Importance
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
South Sudan: Now It’s a Case of the West Misunderstanding Juba
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 ...
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | African Union Faces Security Challenges, But Aims for Economic Integration
An Estimate of an area of key current significance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Israel’s Sudan Air Strike: a Message and a Mission
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
A Confluence of Events in the Horn of Africa
The announcement of the death of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi — possibly a month after he actually died — starts to focus the growing confluence of events in the Horn of Africa; events which show a profound watershed in the strategic situation along one of the most significant trade…
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.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Africa and the Middle East: The Emperor’s Ghost
The Red Sea and Africa’s north-east move deeper into an era of great change, with global ramifications as energy acquisition patterns also transform, impacting the relative geopolitical centrality of the region.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Egypt’s Dilemma Likely to Hit Vital Trade SLOCs
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance — A Defense & Foreign Affairs Staff Report
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
East of Suez: Game Change
With Qadhafi and Mubarak now part of history, the Red Sea and Horn of Africa balance — where they had played key rôles — starts to take on a new shape. Now the debate on the future stability of the Red Sea-Suez SLOC and the Horn of Africa gains new impetus, as Eritrea’s Post-Isayas era dawns.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | Short-Term Objectives; Short-Term Outcomes
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”