SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
When Will Cuba Collapse? And What Happens Then?
There can be no clarity in viewing the post-communist era in the Caribbean.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
The New US-Turkish Plan for the Eastern Mediterranean Shatters Traditional Alliance Patterns
Specific moves by the United States and Türkiye cause concern in Israel while also negatively affecting Greece and Cyprus.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Has the Canada-US Strategic Split Become Irreversible?
And what does that mean for the next era of strategic alliances? A new NATO? A new period of diminished cooperation between the US and Mexico, the US and European NATO, and so on?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Has Türkiye Finally Been Forced Off the Fence? And for How Long?
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | The US at 250
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Next Strategic Advantage: the Restoration of Literacy
Perhaps the “experiment” in universal, forced literacy, has been a failure, an historical blip. Literacy is in retreat because of technology and because inquiring minds challenge leadership patterns. Yet intellectual capacity— signified by literacy— determines strategic success. What is to be done?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2026
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Assessing Long-Term Threats and Trends
The most important, least invested, security priority
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Japan’s View of its Current Threat Position
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | Iran: The Bitterness or Emptiness of Whatever is Defined as Victory
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
How the New Multi-Polar Defense Industrial World Drives Geopolitical Evolution
Global defense industrial thinking is becoming far more entrepreneurial and creative as major defense forces break with absolute strategic integration with the US, or any other major power.
RESOURCES
The Strategic Landscape After the AI and EV Bubbles Burst
The AI and EV bubbles seem headed out of fashion in perhaps a year or two, reducing the distortion they have created in the energy and raw materials markets, and thus transforming the basic elements of the balance of power.