Profound story of one general on mission to change the medical profession and treatment of the human costs of war… Experts told him it would be years, if ever, before more advanced tests could be developed for PTSD… Chiarelli assumed command of One Mind for Research, a nonprofit focused on advancing treatment of brain injury […]
We ‘drill down’ and ‘sideways’ as StratDem looks more closely at the geopolitical, strategic and market forces at work in the oil patch. The House of Saud, in particular, has taken OPEC in a new direction — and consequences are worldwide and considerable…
Oil Politics – Russia – Cyber Politics – China (& N Korea) ○ ○ ○ ○ The end of the calendar year traditionally calls for reflection about the past and hope for the future. This year we pause to consider a number of concerns and ‘keywords’ to keep front of mind…
No es facil… Cuba-US announce move to restore diplomatic relations… the headline of the political week in review is news that Obama and Castro (Raul) have been negotiating and an historic agreement is announced – what’s next?
Week in review opens with torture revelations and how IS-ISIL-Daesh-ISIS begat itself in Iraq prisons, then latest in petrol politics, Cheney’s last stand, then through the Caucuses to Russian moves and over to the UK, across the Atlantic to Peru, and across the Pacific to Japan, Korea, China — as the world turns…
Two weeks ago, we wrote of the Secretary of Defense and his last substantive decision — to ‘modernize’ the U.S. nuclear force… Now we examine the Pentagon’s next SecDef as he begins his journey to oversee the most powerful military force in history…
Enhanced & Extended Security Policy for the 21st Century
Actionable intelligence: US military planning for environmental security and national security
