Key Developments
From Diplomacy to Spectacle: The Decline of the Multilateral Order in the Ukraine War and the Strategic Turn of Global Powers
The war in Ukraine has accelerated the fragmentation of the multilateral system established in the aftermath…
Read More »BRICS and the Non-Aligned Movement: The Fox in the Chicken Coop?
At the 2025 BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva…
Read More »The Fight Tonight Force: Reimagining Military Readiness for the AI Age
America’s military stands at a crossroads. After two decades of grinding land wars in Iraq and…
Read More »America’s Defense Supply Chain Challenge: How Chinese Dependence Threatens U.S. and Allied Military Readiness
I am focused on how we can enhance the capabilities of the ready force or the…
Read More »Brazilian Studies in the United Kingdom
Our colleague Kenneth Maxwell gave the keynote address to the 2025 Brazilian Studies Program Annual Conference…
Read More »The Ukrainian “Spider Web” Operation: Highlighting the Importance of the U.S. Army Acquiring the MV-75 Tiltrotor Aircraft
The success of Operation Spider Web – the audacious and highly successful Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s strategic…
Read More »Special Reports
06/12/2025
The Sir Richard Williams Foundation seminar held on May 22, 2025, at the National Gallery of Australia in...
Book Review
07/10/2025
A recent work by English historian Kenneth Maxwell recovers the history of the reconstruction of London, Lisbon, and Paris 1. Examining the reconstruction efforts of three major European cities was the daunting task undertaken by English historian Kenneth Maxwell in...
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