A Modestly-Growing Australia is Losing its Regional Security Dominance

Significant improvements in the sophistication and general capabilities of South-East Asian nations, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, have relegated Australia’s historical strategic and miliary dominance of the region to a reduced significance.

Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 06/2026

A Vortex of Decline Affecting Government Across the West

Starmer’s exit is indicative of the political turmoil afflicting Western governments around the world as nationalism overtakes globalism.

HISTORY | The Original Special Relationship

A brief history of the oldest alliance in the world

Assessing Long-Term Threats and Trends

The most important, least invested, security priority

ESSENTIAL READING | Japan’s View of its Current Threat Position

EARLY WARNING | Iran: The Bitterness or Emptiness of Whatever is Defined as Victory

Senegal, a Key New Energy Supplier, May Not Yet be Stable

How the New Multi-Polar Defense Industrial World Drives Geopolitical Evolution

Global defense industrial thinking is becoming far more entrepreneurial and creative as major defense forces break with absolute strategic integration with the US, or any other major power.

Further Indicators of Türkiye’s Nuclear Weapons Ambitions

The Turkish defense complex keeps moving toward the nuclearization of its strategic capabilities, from nuclear powered submarines – SSNs or SSGNs – as well as nuclear weapons. And Israel seems set to confront Türkiye before this becomes an operational reality.

The Strategic Landscape After the AI and EV Bubbles Burst

The AI and EV bubbles seem headed out of fashion in perhaps a year or two, reducing the distortion they have created in the energy and raw materials markets, and thus transforming the basic elements of the balance of power.

UK Strategic Recovery: A Long and Winding Road

How will Keir Starmer's resignation change the UK’s strategic direction? And, if so, in what way, and when?