SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The FARC Dilemma
The failure of Colombian voters to ratify a painfully-negotiated treaty with rebel group FARC has profound ramifications for narco-trafficking, as well as for Colombia’s future.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | Opening Eyes in the Indo-Pacific
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Global Architecture: The Era of Strategic Containment is Over
Everything changes when heartland powers become maritime powers
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Australia, Delicately Balanced, Gets Down to Security Business
CRIME & CORRUPTION
Domestic Security: Strategic Policing in the 21st Century
Polarized societies, the byproduct of the Internet and social media as well as the breakdown of national identity caused by urbanization and globalization, has created a new world for domestic security forces.
Afghanistan
Information Dominance: The Invisible Hand of Strategy
An updated version of Dr Stefan T. Possony’s 1975 basic introduction to psychological strategy
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Profit from Genocide
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Alliance-Building in the RedMed
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey have been at the forefront of attempts to build new realities on the ground in the Red Sea-Eastern Mediterranean areas. But there are many sub-sets and contradictions at play, including significant underlying rivalries.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Toward a Perspective on the Next Era of Global Security
Why the End of the Age of Consumerism and Scale Will Change the Balance of Power
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Libya at a Potential Tipping Point, Against the Jihadists
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Syria, Russia Dossier II: The Putin-Netanyahu Duet
Israel and Russia continue their strategic cooperation, despite pressures from the Obama White House to force Israel back into rapprochement with Turkey to help preserve energy supplies to that country as it faces a Russian economic sanctions regime.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Saudi Arabia Throws Down the Gauntlet, But to Whom?
Saudi Arabia’s theater of mass executions on January 2, 2016, was designed to reinforce the authority of its leadership. It may bolster short-term objectives, but it also ended chances for an early end to the Yemen war; it further damaged relations with the US; and it bolstered Turkey’s and Iran’s…