The Great Game: The Endless, Vital Game

Russia is emerging as a major victor in the Great Game. Classical geopolitics lives on.

The right-hand route represents the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), which not only already has immense capacity, but gives Russia a secure route to the Indian Ocean without the cost and vulnerability of the Baltic-Atlantic-Mediterranean-Suez-Red Sea option. Equally, the map shows the proximity of Ukraine and the Black Sea to the North-South Corridor, opening the prospect of a link to and from the Black Sea Basin to a trade route avoiding the Red Sea/Suez

Has the Canada-US Strategic Split Become Irreversible?

And what does that mean for the next era of strategic alliances? A new NATO? A new period of diminished cooperation between the US and Mexico, the US and European NATO, and so on?

Has Türkiye Finally Been Forced Off the Fence? And for How Long?

ESSENTIAL READING | The US at 250

The Next Strategic Advantage: the Restoration of Literacy

Perhaps the “experiment” in universal, forced literacy, has been a failure, an historical blip. Literacy is in retreat because of technology and because inquiring minds challenge leadership patterns. Yet intellectual capacity— signified by literacy— determines strategic success. What is to be done?

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Has the Canada-US Strategic Split Become Irreversible?

Has Türkiye Finally Been Forced Off the Fence? And for How Long?

ESSENTIAL READING | The US at 250

The Next Strategic Advantage: the Restoration of Literacy