From the desk of George Friedman Last week, the European Union’s highest court ruled that Brussels can withhold funding from member states that violate the rule of law, slapping down a legal challenge from Hungary and Poland. What is important is that this decision, pending for more than a year, … [Read more...]

Why Australia must capitalise on public support for a strong stance on China to advance its long-term national security interests. Over the past few years, the increasingly coercive nature of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Indo-Pacific posture has reshaped public perceptions of the regime in … [Read more...]

By Stephen Blank (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool) Russia's offensive against international order does not confine itself to Europe. It is increasingly clear that it is also attacking the West, including the U.S. and particularly French interests in Africa as well as those … [Read more...]

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On 16 February 2022, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO Defence Ministers “met to address Russia’s continued military build-up in and around Ukraine,” on the first day of NATO Defence Ministers’ meetings in … [Read more...]

CAPT David L O “Bulldog” Hayward (Retd) Defense Analyst, Management Consultant and Author Founder: China Research Team Australia (2003) Our world waits in dire trepidation. Will a worst case scenario eventuate any time soon? Will mankind survive potential Armageddon? [ i.e. In the New Testament, … [Read more...]

Newly commissioned upgraded F-16V fighter jets are seen at Air Force base in Chiayi in southwestern Taiwan Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. Taiwan has deployed the most advanced version of the F-16 fighter jet in its Air Force, as the island steps up its defense capabilities in the face of continuing … [Read more...]

Joseph E. FALLON Geopolitics has been defined as “The struggle over the control of geographical entities with an international and global dimension, and the use of such geographical entities for political advantage.”1 But Geopolitics can best be understood as the application of Sir Isaac Newton’s … [Read more...]

Eduard PRYS, PhD UKRAINE AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION AND UKRAINE’S MOVEMENT TOWARDS EU AND NATO In 1991, Ukraine, as many other countries of former socialist camp, declared independence and the will to join Euro-Atlantic course of foreign policy. As it is known the processes of … [Read more...]

dr. Octavian SERGENTU Abstract. Critical infrastructure research is becoming a priority in most states and primarily in the United States, where the level of information technology development and opportunities for contemporary imitation modeling complexes are steadily increasing. Among the … [Read more...]