STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Revisiting, Reviewing
Important New Strategic Literature
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | Intercontinental Drift or Tectonic Clash?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Restoring the Power and Legitimacy of Governance
Could the restoration of aspects of a more traditional structure help stabilize and inspire Russian governance? Or, indeed, all governments?
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Public Health Parallel
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The New Total War: Decisive Battle, Decisive War
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | The Strategic Weaponization of Lying
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Global Strategy: The Critical “Phony War”
Beijing’s new war against the US and the West could be won or lost before kinetic actions get serious
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Coronavirus Impacts the Australian Defense Outlook
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Outlook Post-COVID-19: Re-Thinking Australia
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The COVID-19 Wars: Strategic Warfare Amid Chaos, Threat, Opportunity
“[T]he only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” — Inaugural address of US Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Next-Gen Strategic Warfare
The Middle East is becoming a key node in the gradual introduction of “next-generation warfare”, as asymmetric confrontation necessitates a greater move toward technology-led Information Dominance doctrines.
SOVEREIGNTY
A New “East-West” Fault Line
A new strategic framework is possible in which the US could regain some leverage in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean. And it could see a resolution of the Kosovo problem which has dogged US credibility in the region since 2008.