Afghanistan
Information Dominance: The Invisible Hand of Strategy
An updated version of Dr Stefan T. Possony’s 1975 basic introduction to psychological strategy
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Terrorism: The Jihad Escalates In Europe
But it’s not necessarily driven just by DI’ISH, the Islamic State. It has its core within Europe.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EN CLAIR | Stabilizing Brazil for the Olympics
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Australia opts for Forward Defense
Australia’s new Defence White Paper and associated policy papers provoke significant major power interest, largely because Australia is looking, for the first time, at forward projection of capability. But it faces enormous challenges in rebuilding its defense industrial capabilities.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Libya’s Gathering and Critical Jihad
What are Libya’s, and the international community’s, options in the face of the Islamic Caliphate’s growing rôle in Libya? The pace of the conflict there has broadened following a “mega-merger” of jihadist groups under the Caliphate’s banner.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 02/2016
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Transformative Global Strategic Trends: Their Impact on National Security in the Coming Decades
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Libya as a DI’ISH Target: Broad Regional Ramifications
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Syria, Russia Dossier II: The Putin-Netanyahu Duet
Israel and Russia continue their strategic cooperation, despite pressures from the Obama White House to force Israel back into rapprochement with Turkey to help preserve energy supplies to that country as it faces a Russian economic sanctions regime.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria, Russia Dossier: Russia’s War Against DI’ISH
How Russia has planned and executed its expanded war against DI’ISH and the jihadist movements in Syria, and how Turkey and the US have been responding.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Saudi Arabia Throws Down the Gauntlet, But to Whom?
Saudi Arabia’s theater of mass executions on January 2, 2016, was designed to reinforce the authority of its leadership. It may bolster short-term objectives, but it also ended chances for an early end to the Yemen war; it further damaged relations with the US; and it bolstered Turkey’s and Iran’s…
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY