STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The overarching strategic US-PRC trajectory seems largely unchanged: the PRC in continued decline and the US in continued strategic consolidation. US allies are making separate plans to manage their strategic space to a greater degree.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Everything is connected, and it’s starting to become clear with the US strategic operations.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Did the US have no concrete follow-on plan to restore Iran as a stable ally of the US in the region, as it had been during the US Nixon Administration (1969-74)?
HISTORY
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The US Trump Administration has possibly approached its zenith. So what’s next?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Trump indicated that the US would soon leave the Iran region without guaranteeing any long-term US strategic necessities, like cutting off energy to the PRC, or gaining clear access to the markets of Central Asia. Trump failed to engage allies but insulted them nonetheless for not providing support.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
The third pillar of AUKUS is belatedly shaping up to be strategic space cooperation.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The United States may, within a decade, have completed its move from being “the indispensable nation” — whatever that means — to becoming isolated, even as it remains the world’s sole superpower.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Trump Doctrine will attract dismissal, but it is highly informative and important.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Imperial conquest is returning to the world in a new form, just as we have digested the earlier ages of imperial conquests. Our world is the result of the absorption of smaller states over millennia, even most states which emerged from colonialism in the latter half of the 20th Century.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Has Canada been gifted a chance to determine its own strategic future?