HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 10/2019
SOVEREIGNTY
A New “East-West” Fault Line
A new strategic framework is possible in which the US could regain some leverage in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean. And it could see a resolution of the Kosovo problem which has dogged US credibility in the region since 2008.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Climate: Changing Political, Strategic Traction?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 07/2019
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 02/2019
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Tripping Into War
SOVEREIGNTY
EN CLAIR | Ukraine: The Triumph of Short-Term Politics Over Strategic Vision
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Is “The New Thirty Years War” Already Escalating?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Trump Iran Decision: Yes, But What Does It Really Mean?
US Pres. Donald Trump’s move to pull the US out of the Iran nuclear pact was anticipated, and dire forecasts proliferated as to the impact of such a move. But what, in the end, does it really mean? The pact had not led to a real opening between Iran and the West.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Searching for Meaning in the US National Security Strategy
SOVEREIGNTY
Cratometamorphosis: Inclusion, Exclusion, Seclusion?
The mounting hysteria over secessionist and sovereignty movements — whether in Catalonia, Scotland, Kurdistan, Turkey, West Papua, or Oromia — should cause political leaders to reflect on the causes of national schisms rather than merely to attempt to suppress them.