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In Brief: How Government and Commercial Entities Can Advance Space Initiatives Together
A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand…
Putting the Screws on the Partnership Between North Korea and Russia
As the war between Ukraine and Russia has raged on, cooperation has grown between Moscow and Pyongyang. Following the Russo-North Korean summit in September 2023, North Korea began providing large-scale military assistance to Russia,…
Eurodeterrent: A Vision for an Anglo-French Nuclear Force
Recently published Signal discussions in which senior Trump administration officials admit they “hate bailing out” America’s “pathetic” European allies have cast fresh doubt on the U.S. commitment to defending Europe. Even before these…
Taiwan’s Biggest Limitation in Defense Isn’t Spending, It’s Late Deliveries from U.S. Defense…
When it comes to Taiwan, comments from the Trump administration about the island nation increasing its defense budget to up to 10 percent of its annual gross domestic product have been making headlines, but this isn’t the real problem.…
Hell’s Bells, Can We Stop Talking About Annexing Canada?!
<!-- category --> March 27, 2025 Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the…
A Skills Shortage Plagues British Defense
On a visit to a Royal Air Force base, I met a military logistics driver, Jack. Jack joined young and received training in specialist defense logistics skills now in short supply. After his post was outsourced, Jack remained, with the…
Rewind and Reconnoiter: A Continent-Wide Blind Spot Revisited
<!-- category --> March 26, 2025 In his 2022 article, “America Ignores Africa at its Own Peril,” Joe Bruhl made the case that the United States was ignoring Africa to its grave peril while China and Russia operated on the…
A Stroll Through the Indo-Pacific, the Most Important Region in the World
In this episode, we get into what’s driving the Indo-Pacific’s security dynamics, from China’s threats to Taiwan to AUKUS and the Quad to stability (or lack thereof) on the Korean Peninsula to bases in the Philippines. We also touch on how…
The March Massacres Show That Syria Urgently Needs Solutions, Not Sanctions
Early March 2025 was when Syria’s post-Assad transition turned sour. In scenes that resembled the worst moments of Syria’s civil war, hundreds of Alawite civilians were killed, probably by a combination of pro-government forces and…
The South Pacific Is the New Frontline in the Rivalry with China
A few weeks ago, commercial flights over the Tasman Sea — located between Australia and New Zealand — were forced to divert after they were warned by the Chinese navy that its warships were about to conduct live-fire exercises in the area.…
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