DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
How Real is IMEC? As Real as AUKUS?
The surprise announcement of the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor lacks clarity as to the US's intention in drafting the concept, and how it will proceed.
MIGRATION
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Strategic Power's Inverse Relationship to Population Increase
One of the remaining myths to be punctured in assessing strategic power and strength is the widely-entrenched belief that national economic growth is directly proportional to population growth and population size.
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Cuba no es Libre
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
The New Total War Economy
How can Xi Jinping, without a strategy or an economic philosophy, promise a war without a war economy?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Budget Superpower
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | More Taiwan Gaming
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Global Trends: The Great Transition
The glacial drifts to and from autocracy
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The New Total War: The PLA Case for a Coup Against Xi?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2023
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EN CLAIR | A Last Chance to Save the US Marines’ New Vision?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Undoing Nixon in the Mid-East
The overthrow of Richard Nixon led post-Soviet Russia to dominance in the Middle East.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
AUKUS: Operational Vitality; Strategic Challenges
Operationally, the AUKUS alliance is moving rapidly to create an integrated global power projection instrument. But it is very different at the political level, where politicians appear to be distracted by other agendas.