STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Limits of Long-Range Planning
Plans of attack rarely survive the first shot. Flexibility, guided by strategic principles, is key.
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.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2024
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | Maritime Strategy
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The View from 1997: New Strategic Environments Demand a New Doctrinal View
The global military environment has, with the political division of the world, changed dramatically since 1990. But military doctrine, and the tools to cope with the new world, are still insufficiently developed.
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Carrier Memories
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
China: What if Xi Jinping Survives?
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?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The New Total War: The PLA Case for a Coup Against Xi?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Xi Jinping and the Galtieri Syndrome: Indicators of an Irrational War?
How do strategic planners prepare for what seem to be irrational decisions by a leader such as Xi Jinping, who is isolated from advice and is prepared to define the national interest in his own terms, regardless of the possible outcome?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Nixon in the PRC
History has largely disregarded the unintended consequences of US Pres. Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to the People’s Republic of China, and how the USSR retaliated, cutting short the President’s strategic agenda for dealing with both Beijing and Moscow.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR