Russia is a nation that has always been blessed with creative minds, whether it be literary giants like Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy, artists such as Peter Carl Faberge, composers such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky, or the military genius of an Aleksander Svechin or Aleksander Suvorov. Russia also has been blessed with the work of innovators in ...Read more >

THE military that the Russian Federation inherited in the 1990s had a bloated command structure designed for the command and control of literally thousands of divisions , regiments, and battalions, with the vast majority of these units being skeleton units manned by small cadres that would help flesh out the unit with conscripts and reservists in the event of a mass ...Read more >

Russian General Staff Chief Valery Gerasimov has continually requested that the Academy of Military Science provide him with ideas about new forms and methods of warfare. One source defined “methods� as the use of weaponry and military art. 1 Weaponry is now advanced and is characterized by new speeds, ranges, and agilities, which introduce new ways for Russian commanders to apply force. Military art takes into consideration advanced weaponry’s contributions to ...Read more >

The Trump administration’s most consequential policy will prove to be, in my opinion, a tougher stance against the People’s Republic of China. Since the 1980s, presidential candidates of both parties have run as tough on China, only to soften their positions once elected. But President Trump was the exception to this rule, and his administration pursued a campaign to harden our defenses against China’s aggressive behavior, and to sound the diplomatic alarm around the world. ...Read more >

The Lowy Institute for International Policy is an independent policy think tank. Its mandate ranges across all the dimensions of international policy debate in Australia — economic, political and ...Read more >

This paper examines Chinas increase of maritime power relative to its national interests and in comparison to its neighbours and the United States of ...Read more >

Cyber penetrates deeply into our society and pervades all aspects of our professional and private lives, yet UK political leaders were slow to show leadership in this ...Read more >

The rising power of China and its growing thirst for energy and resources has reestablished the strategic importance of the Indian Ocean Region. An examination of state responses to Chinese activities in the IOR is ...Read more >

Drawing upon a range of research from different political scientists, analysts, and commentators, this paper starts with the premise that the world is interconnected. It accepts that the world can also be described in a systemic ...Read more >

The question is not whether resources are in Antarctica; its what to do about them. Technological advances mean that it is now feasible to use exploratory methods in Antarctica that have worked well in the ...Read more >

Chinese engagement with Africa has been a favoured topic for academic studies in recent years with most focus being on what is the Chinese strategy for engagement with the ...Read more >

Redpointing Strategy: A Model for Strategy-making in Contemporary Conflict, argues that traditional models of strategy-making may be inappropriate in wars of discretion where national survival is not at ...Read more >

Many in Britains security elite have suggested that Britain has lost its capacity and culture of strategic thinking. In a more complex world, and with less national resources, this loss, they argue, makes Britain strategically ...Read more >

Globalization era had brought the opening of boundaries and technological changes taken by Organized Crime to developed and became a transnational threat that affects all states in its security, stability and ...Read more >

The increasing threat and proliferation of ballistic missiles has forced countries to acquire ballistic missile defense capabilities. It created a tension between investments in offense and defense capabilities and a need to find the right ...Read more >