SECURITY, UNREST & WAR

What Does Beijing Do Now?

Presidential elections in Taiwan repudiated PRC pressure, just as protests in Hong Kong have done. Beijing hoped 2019 would be the year that all significant opposition to its strategic rise would be silenced.

The 500 tonne disp. Republic of China Navy corvette Tuo Jiang, launched in 2014, was the harbinger of a new type of Taiwanese naval capacity, built around highly-maneuverable, high-impact ships, including wave-piercing catamaran frigates and other ships, plus new indigenously-designed submarines, plus the modernization of its two existing Hai Lung (Sea Dragon) class (Netherlands-built Zwaardvis-class) submarines

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