STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The PRC’s Internal Conversation
Beijing starts to frame a rationale and strategy for its New Thirty Years War with the United States.
CRIME & CORRUPTION
Sierra Leone Begins Slipping Back to “Business as Usual”
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
On Which Our Fates Depend
Are the 2 emerging global pillars more at risk from themselves than from each other? Are we seeing the re-emergence of the world division into the maritime states versus the heartland powers? Could the PRC become the first true global heartland/maritime power? What are the three overriding factors?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | Self-Fulfilling Lunacies of Short-Termism
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Can Lessons Be Learned From the Loss of the San Juan?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 12/2018
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Unfinished Boer War Business
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Insecurity in Beijing?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Yemen, the Unnecessary War
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | The Lord of the Flies Writ Large
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Re-Emerging Shape of France as a Global Power?
SOVEREIGNTY
Governance: The King is Dead? Not by a Long Shot
The usurpation of monarchical governance has been widely promoted as an inexorable trend, but it is a trend now facing reversal in many areas of the world. This report looks at the rôle of monarchies in recent world history, and how, as an example, they play a rôle in securing the future.