STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Vital Strategic Debate: Who, in the West, Lost Africa?
An estimate of an area of key current significance
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions - 02/2012
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Rare Insights
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
ESSENTIAL READING | A Brief History of Cratocide
Important New Strategic Literature
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Economic Strategy: Making the Numbers Work
The Strategic Impact of Population Growth on Pakistan’s Agricultural, Energy and Economic Trends
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The “Death” of Kim Jong-Un
Insights into the consolidation of power in the DPRK.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EN CLAIR | Kim Jong-Un Asserts N-Rôle
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | Short-Term Objectives; Short-Term Outcomes
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The PRC’s Space Strategy Signifies a New Competitiveness
An estimate of an area of key current significance
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 01/2012
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Military Doctrine: The Legacy of Coalition Warfare
US Defense reorganization means major doctrinal re-thinking, not just for the US, but for its Allies. The debate now begins on how to get back to sustainable — politically and economically — warfighting doctrines after the strategic failure of “overwhelming wealth”.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Terrorism and Geopolitics: The Release of Abu-Musab al-Suri
How the release from a Syrian prison of perhaps the most important jihadist ideologues reflects a delicate interplay between Iran, Syria, and the Sunni jihadist forces from Qatar, Turkey, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia.