The Invasion Unfolds
Scenario Generation Exercise - Part 3 - America Comes to Taiwan’s Rescue
8 Feb 2024: Taiwan Straits
On 8 Feb 2024, China commenced a series of...
Chinese Leadership Discusses Strategy
Scenario Generation Exercise – Part 2 - USA Ponders Over Options
30 Jun 2023. White House. Washington.
Director CIA, William Burns asked for a most urgent...
Events Leading up to the Invasion
Scenario Generation Exercise – Part 1 - Xi Jinping Gives the Go-ahead
16 Feb 2022. Meeting of Central Military Commission (CMC) on Taiwan Question. Beijing
Russia...
EDITORIAL – Conditions for the Invasion of Taiwan
Analysts have generally regarded four perspectives on the future of Taiwan, in view of the threat by China:
Status Quo Continuation. The status quo might...
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR – Hamas Leadership, Setup and Capabilities
Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist militant group that has been fighting against Israel since its founding in 1987. Hamas has a political and a...
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR – Hamas Ideology and Gaza Politics
Hamas, militant Palestinian nationalist and Islamist movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that is dedicated to the establishment of an independent Islamic...
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR – What led up to the October 7 Massacre
In 1948 the State of Israel was created on land inhabited by both Jews and Arab Palestinians. Hostilities between the two communities that year...
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR – Israel’s Intelligence Failure
The deadly attack by Hamas on 7 October represents the greatest failure of Israeli intelligence in the country's 75-year history. At least 1,200 Israelis...
Recent Spurt in Terror Attacks in NW Pakistan
On 30 July, a suicide attack was launched at Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) gathering in the village of Khar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bajaur district. The...
Weapons Abandoned by US Forces in Afghanistan
According to an official assessment carried out by the US Defense Department about the arms left behind in Afghanistan, released in August 2021, the...