Guinea-Bissau’s Instability Returns

Guinea-Bissau’s November 2025 coup continues the trend away from Western-influenced practices and toward a resumption of the time when Africa’s future is shaped by Africa.

CURRENT ESTIMATE | Has Trump Transformed, or Ended, the Anglophone Group?

United States President Donald Trump, during the first year of his second presidency, severely shook strategic relationships with the US’ key historical allies in the Anglosphere, the traditionally English-speaking societies of the world.

Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2025

ESSENTIAL READING | The Outrageous and Innovative General Orde Wingate

Fire in the Night, by British journalists John Bierman and Colin Smith, examines the huge impact of a unique British officer, Major General Orde Wingate, who died in Burma in 1944 during World War II.

ESSENTIAL READING | The Battle to Live “Like Free People”

Historian Benjamin Nathans of the University of Pennsylvania lifts his new book’s title from the traditional vodka toast of Soviet dissidents: to the “success of our hopeless cause”.

EN CLAIR | Two US Deaths of Strategic Significance

The US lost two key figures of significant political and strategic influence in recent months - Edward Fuelner and Charles Kirk.

EN CLAIR | Can the US Avoid Escalating Against Venezuela?

The US Government seemed likely, by mid-September 2025, to escalate military and political pressure to curb Venezuela’s central role in narcotics trafficking to the US and, if possible, to cause the collapse of the Venezuelan Government of President Nicolás Maduro.

The Limits of Long-Range Planning

Plans of attack rarely survive the first shot. Flexibility, guided by strategic principles, is key.

Crowds versus Power

The globalist-nationalist confrontation has intensified to the point where crowds angrily demand change. Is the cycle predictable? How do today’s crowds discharge their energy?

The Opaque New Phase of the Red Sea Competition

Washington had, by late August 2025, finally begun to focus on the strategic importance of the Red Sea-Suez sea lane and the essential element of control of the littorals which dominate the trade passage. But it is late in joining the party.

Turkey, Unabashed, Wants a Share of the EU’s Defense Spending

Despite its closeness with Russia, Türkiye is attempting to access European defense funds.

Anger and Terror in the Turkish Armed Forces

President Erdogan’s new measures are leading to the politicization of the Turkish Armed Forces in order to control it to the fullest extent.