by Timucin Ibu | Dec 18, 2025 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Key Takeaways NATO’s core strategic assumption has changed irreversibly. The Alliance no longer treats major war as a distant contingency preceded by ample warning. Senior political, military, and intelligence leaders now operate on the premise that confrontation...
by Asia Pacific Task Force | Dec 15, 2025 | Commentary, Energy Security
Key Takeaways The $1 trillion surplus signals structural weakness, not strength. It reflects suppressed domestic demand, excess capacity, and policy distortions rather than superior competitiveness or healthy growth. China’s export boom is driven by one-sided...
by Timucin Ibu | Dec 11, 2025 | Commentary, Defence & Security
The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) marks a sharp shift in American policy towards Europe and the transatlantic alliance. It recasts NATO and European security in transactional terms, prioritizes U.S. sovereignty and economic interests, and treats Europe as...
by BEYOND THE HORIZON | Dec 7, 2025 | Commentary, Defence & Security
Key Takeaways The Indo-Pacific is elevated as the decisive theater of 21st-century U.S. strategy, framed in explicitly realist, geo-economic terms rather than ideological ones. Economic security is treated as national security, with the NSS prioritizing de-risking...
by Timucin Ibu | Dec 3, 2025 | Commentary, Defence & Security
Key Takeaways SAFE has become the nucleus of Europe’s defence-industrial integration. What began as a financing tool is now the organizing framework around which procurement, production, standards, and long-term capability planning are being aligned. Canada’s...
by Asia Pacific Task Force | Nov 30, 2025 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Key Takeaways A Shift to “Strategic Overdrive”: The East Asian security landscape has moved beyond “managed competition” into a volatile four-way dynamic involving China, the U.S., Japan, and Taiwan. This new phase is characterized by the...
