PERSONNEL
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2025
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Reactive Fear Against Nationalism
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Views on the Unknown Future Defense Industrial Base
How nations shift to new, and flexible, manufacturing techniques, and adapting old industries, will be a key determinant of sovereignty in the coming decades.
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | An Amateur’s War...
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Currency as the Fundamental Source of Power and Power Projection
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Dynamics of 2025
Has the “age of heroes” begun its return? Leaders replacing managers?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Recalibrating AUKUS (and FiveEyes) in the Second Trump Era?
Incoming Pres. Trump’s main challenge is not how to make the two key strategic alliances merge, but finding leaders in all the four other states who can see the strategic potential of the FiveEyes/AUKUS combine. There may be some blood on the floor as he jostles to get the outcome right.
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Hogs, Oceans, Liberty, and Victory!
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
AUKUS: Awakening to a Different World
HISTORY
Sustaining Legacies
On the Passing of Sir Geoffrey Pattie, former UK Minister of State for Defence
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The Commonwealth’s Surprising Power and BRICS’ Fragility
CHOGM showed that the sun had not set on the British Empire, but that the Empire — now the Commonwealth — has prospered, and that the Crown, as head of it, has moved well beyond the grasp of the Government of the United Kingdom.