HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | Former Iranian Foreign Minister Zahedi Recognized
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
P3R: Projection, Protection, Policing, Resilience
Gregory R. Copley, at the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 10/2012
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Old Peking Alive
Important New Strategic Literature
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Nature and Cyber Warfare: Hurricane Sandy Showed the Vulnerability of Cities to Cyber Threats
Cyber threats now have potentially greater destructive power than nuclear weapons
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Beirut Assassination Showed Lebanese Involvement in Anti-Syrian Fighting
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Turkey Stumbles, But Washington Pushed
The mid-October 2012 Turkish interception of an alleged Syrian military shipment was intended to build momentum for the case to intervene in Syria. But it backfired, and may have damaged US-Turkish trust, and given the upper hand to Moscow.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Re-Thinking Intelligence in an Age of Budget Decline
Can modern nation-states remain in command of their destinies if, in a time of extreme economic pressure, they fail to totally re-think approaches to intelligence functions?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Nigerian Security Situation Deteriorates; the PRC Frets
An estimate of an area of key current significance
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2012
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS