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- Venezuela’s New Era: The Delcy Rodríguez Presidency January 8, 2026This is a time-sensitive special report and is based on information available as of January 7, 2026. Due to the situation being very dynamic the following report should be used to obtain a perspective but not viewed as an absolute. On January 3, 2026, the geopolitical architecture of the Western Hemisphere underwent a seismic shift ...
- Operation Absolute Resolve: An Intelligence Assessment January 7, 2026This is a time-sensitive special report and is based on information available as of January 6, 2026. Due to the situation being very dynamic the following report should be used to obtain a perspective but not viewed as an absolute. The execution of Operation Absolute Resolve on January 3, 2026, marks a definitive inflection point ...
- Operation Absolute Resolve: A Military Assessment January 7, 2026This is a time-sensitive special report and is based on information available as of January 6, 2026. Due to the situation being very dynamic the following report should be used to obtain a perspective but not viewed as an absolute. The execution of Operation Absolute Resolve in the early hours of January 3, 2026, constitutes ...
- Venezuela’s Path to Fragmented Warlordism Post-Maduro January 7, 2026Published: January 6, 2026 This is a time-sensitive special report and is based on information available as of January 6, 2026. Due to the situation being very dynamic the following report should be used to obtain a perspective but not viewed as an absolute. 1. Executive Summary: The Physics of State Decapitation The Venezuelan state system, ...
- Cuba’s Collapse: Understanding Terminal Entropy January 7, 2026Date: January 6, 2026 This is a time-sensitive special report and is based on information available as of January 6, 2026. Due to the situation being very dynamic the following report should be used to obtain a perspective but not viewed as an absolute. 1. Executive Intelligence Summary 1.1 The Strategic Verdict: State Lifecycle Stage 5 (Terminal ...
- Impact of U.S. Control over Venezuelan Oil on Global Markets January 6, 2026This is a time-sensitive special report and is based on information available as of January 5, 2026. Due to the situation being very dynamic the following report should be used to obtain a perspective but not viewed as an absolute. The geopolitical architecture of the Western Hemisphere underwent a seismic reconfiguration on January 3, 2026. ...
- Venezuelan Oil Under US Control: Consequences for Cuba January 6, 2026This is a time-sensitive special report and is based on information available as of January 5, 2026. Due to the situation being very dynamic the following report should be used to obtain a perspective but not viewed as an absolute. The geopolitical landscape of the Caribbean Basin underwent a cataclysmic shift on January 3, 2026, ...
- US Control Over Venezuelan Oil: Implications for Russia January 6, 2026This is a time-sensitive special report and is based on information available as of January 5, 2026. Due to the situation being very dynamic the following report should be used to obtain a perspective but not viewed as an absolute. The decisive execution of Operation Absolute Resolve in January 2026, culminating in the capture of ...
- US Control Over Venezuelan Oil: Implications for China January 6, 2026This is a time-sensitive special report and is based on information available as of January 5, 2026. Due to the situation being very dynamic the following report should be used to obtain a perspective but not viewed as an absolute. The January 2026 execution of “Operation Absolute Resolve,” which culminated in the extraction of Nicolás ...
- Operation Absolute Resolve: Strategic Implications of US Control over Venezuelan Energy Assets January 6, 2026This is a time-sensitive special report and is based on information available as of January 5, 2026. Due to the situation being very dynamic the following report should be used to obtain a perspective but not viewed as an absolute. The military intervention in Venezuela, designated operationally as “Operation Absolute Resolve,” marks a definitive inflection ...
- Comparative State Decay: Why First World Nations Lag Behind December 28, 2025This report delivers a comprehensive strategic assessment regarding the comparative velocity of state decay between “First World” nations (Advanced Industrial Democracies) and “Second/Third World” nations (Emerging and Developing Economies). Moving beyond superficial metrics of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), this analysis adopts a structural entropy framework. Here, “decay” is rigorously defined not merely as economic contraction, ...
- Understanding U.S. Institutional and Social Decay December 27, 2025The question of whether the United States is in a state of decay is not merely a matter of partisan rhetoric but a subject of profound geopolitical and sociological consequence. A rigorous analysis of the nation’s trajectory reveals a complex, bifurcated reality that defies simple binary categorization. The United States is not experiencing a uniform ...
- Ukraine’s Strategic Evolution in the Russo-Ukrainian War by 2025 December 26, 2025As the Russo-Ukrainian War approaches the culmination of its fourth year in late 2025, the strategic landscape is defined by a profound divergence in the trajectories of the two belligerents. The user’s intuition that the differences between the current state of the Ukrainian and Russian war machines would be “marked” is not only correct but ...
- Three Potential US-Venezuela Conflict Scenarios and Outcomes December 12, 2025The Western Hemisphere stands at its most precarious security juncture since the height of the Cold War. As of December 2025, the convergence of Venezuela’s irredentist ambitions over the Essequibo region, the totalizing economic collapse of the Maduro regime, and a robust, forward-deployed United States military posture under Operation Southern Spear has created a pre-conflict ...
- The Crisis of the Maduro Regime: A 2025 Analysis December 12, 2025As of December 11, 2025, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela faces an existential convergence of internal institutional decay and external military siege. This report, commissioned to analyze the historical trajectory of the Venezuelan state, charts the nation’s devolution from the stability of the Puntofijo Pact to the revolutionary hegemony of Hugo Chávez, and finally to ...
- BRICS+: Assessing the Cohesion, Capabilities, and Challenge of a Reconfigured Global Bloc November 25, 2025This report assesses the strategic capabilities, internal cohesion, and geopolitical implications of the expanded BRICS+ group of nations. The analysis concludes that BRICS+ represents a significant, long-term systemic challenge to the U.S.-led international order. However, its potential to act as a unified, revisionist bloc is severely constrained by profound internal divisions and structural contradictions. It ...
- Ronin’s Grips: Analyzing the Invisible Battlefield—Why Social Media Sentiment is the New Decisive Terrain November 22, 2025The character of conflict has irrevocably shifted. We are no longer operating in a world of episodic, declared wars, but in a condition of persistent, unending competition that actively exploits strategic ambiguity. For the national security community, this means the battlefield has expanded from physical territory to encompass critical infrastructure, financial systems, and, most crucially, ...
- European Nuclear Posture: Sovereign Arsenals, Shared Deterrence, and Geopolitical Alignments November 19, 2025The European security landscape is defined by a complex, multi-layered nuclear deterrent posture designed to preserve peace and deter aggression. This posture is composed of two distinct but complementary elements: the sovereign, independent nuclear arsenals of the United Kingdom and France, and the extended deterrence framework of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which includes ...
- Systemic Fragility Analysis of the Philippines: A 36-Month Predictive Outlook – Q4 2025 November 6, 2025Overall Fragility Score: 6.8 / 10.0 Lifecycle Stage Assessment: STRESSED. The state maintains core functionality but exhibits significant erosion in institutional resilience, social cohesion, and capacity to absorb shocks. Chronic stressors are accumulating faster than they are being mitigated, increasing systemic brittleness. Key Drivers of Fragility: Extreme Climate Vulnerability: Acts as a primary systemic risk multiplier, capable of ...
- Systemic Fragility Analysis of the Islamic Republic of Iran: A 36-Month Predictive Outlook – Q4 2025 November 5, 2025Overall Fragility Score: 8.2 / 10 (Highly Fragile) Lifecycle Stage Assessment: CRISIS The Islamic Republic of Iran is assessed to be in a Crisis stage of state fragility. The foundational pillars of the state are critically compromised, and its capacity to withstand further shocks is minimal. Core state functions, particularly in the economic and public service domains, ...