HISTORY
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Can Today’s Great Powers Still Plan?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
The Art of the Deal?
Short-term, transactional deals now emerging may ensure that the global transformation could be less decisive, less dramatic, and less effective than anticipated. But they may also be less disruptive, carrying many of the bad habits and ills of the past into the future.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Possible Variable Evolutions of the Israeli-Iranian War
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 07/2025
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The New RedMed Jigsaw Puzzle
All the pieces are in play simultaneously.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | For a Few Barrels More: How Trump Attempts to Stabilize Libya
Finally, the US seems set to help restore the stability and economy of Libya in a move which would consolidate even further Washington’s new place in the expanded Middle East area, from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Canada Forced Out Into the Cold: Opportunity or Trap?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Reactive Fear Against Nationalism
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
The F-47 Shows the US Back in the Game
Washington showed that it cannot slacken off in the air dominance game just now.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
An Unstable Global Defense Marketplace
New threats, new alliances, new technologies: all challenge the US’ “golden age”.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Views on the Unknown Future Defense Industrial Base
How nations shift to new, and flexible, manufacturing techniques, and adapting old industries, will be a key determinant of sovereignty in the coming decades.