DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
AUKUS: The Silence of the Silent Service
AUKUS was conceived to deliver nuclear power to Australian submarine capabilities. The treaty is emerging as a strategic success … except for achieving its primary purpose.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Geopolitics: The Re-Shaped Middle East Is Transforming the World
Old concepts of “the Middle East” using various geographic models, or using Arab or Arabic or Muslim overlays, are now not representative of the “new Middle East” which is, for the first time in centuries, less definable than ever, by its name and by other simple descriptors.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
ESSENTIAL READING | History Through Recognition
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Malaysia’s New Elected King
Malaysia crowned a new king on January 31, 2024, and he promises — like King Charles III in the UK — to add new dynamism to the monarchy, and re-define its rôle.
AFRICA
Ethiopia: Close to Major Change?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Xi Jinping: The Future Emerges
Xi Jinping’s position was made more vulnerable by the Taiwanese presidential election, and now, with few options left, his exit is being plotted.
AUKUS alliance
Strategic Architecture: An Evolution in the Pacific
A new geopolitical bloc is forming in Oceania, and it may be strategically significant.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Mass Movements: The New Totalitarianism
The 21st Century totalitarian mass movements have led to the decline of political parties, to the point that the strategic conflict for survival rivals the 20th Century war between totalitarianism and nationalism.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The View from 1997: New Strategic Environments Demand a New Doctrinal View
The global military environment has, with the political division of the world, changed dramatically since 1990. But military doctrine, and the tools to cope with the new world, are still insufficiently developed.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Sierra Leone: “Another Rwanda”?
Pres. Bio is increasingly turning his attempts to retain power into an ethnic civil war.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Guyana-Venezuela: When Will It Escalate to a Broader, Proxy War?
Or has it already done so? And will the West have to move away from sanctions as a primary strategic weapon, and rely more on direct measures?
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Strategic Philosophy: Cratocide of the Republics?
The transformation of the global strategic architecture is well advanced, bringing with it the slow death of some of the structures begun in the industrial revolution, and the slow birth or re-birth of identities seeking sovereign security.