DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EARLY WARNING | The Strategic Impact of the US Elections
Afghanistan
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09-2014
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | The Next Big Thing
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Souda Bay: Again Vital in the Eastern Med.
As Turkey slips in terms of NATO reliability, planners look at changing threat and access patterns in the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategy: To Win is to Change, and in Many Ways
Almost all decisive strategic victories — winning the peace, not just the battle — derive from the adoption of game-changing capabilities, as well as strategic depth. Competing through linear development of old approaches is expensive and dangerous, especially when budgets are tight.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | Absent Nationalism, Civilization Founders
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Canada Searches for its Identity in Colder Waters
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Libya, Now Effectively Divided, Seeks a Way Forward
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | Why the Islamic Caliphate May Presage Change
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2014
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Africa Transforms, But Confused US Policies Push it Toward China
The US Obama White House seeks to retain Western influence over Africa — partially through its Africa Leaders Summit — while ceding strategic “authority” to France. But the plan has backfired, giving strategic opportunity to China, and opening the gates to African change.