Canada's prime minister announced plans Friday for an army training center and a deepwater port on the third day of an Arctic trip meant to assert sovereignty over a region with potentially vast …
Canada ‘to reclaim Arctic waters’
Canada has announced plans for six naval patrol vessels and a deep-water port in the north to assert its claim to territorial waters in the Arctic. Other countries, including the US, say the waters …
Fuel spills from ship in Antarctic
FUEL from a Norwegian cruise ship that ran aground at an Antarctic island has spilled onto the coastline, a scientist from Spain's base in the area said today. Fuel washed into a bay off Antarctica's …
NATO Versus “The Ultimate Threat Multiplier”
In 2017, NATO released a seminal report that concluded that climate change is the ultimate “threat multiplier," exacerbating political instability in the world’s most unstable regions, with …
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The Houthi’s Hollywood-style Branding Campaign – and Situational Awareness from the Deck of the USS Eisenhower
In the weeks ahead, you will see more Original Analysis of our working risk assessment/hypothesis for the current maritime conflict in the Red Sea: "The probability that a Houthi-led drone swarm …
Is the Sociotechnical Geopolitical Future – and War? – Converging in the Islands and Territories of the Pacific and Oceania?
One learns to stay open to what John Cage, William Burroughs, and Brion Gysin characterized as "chance operations," integrating the role of chance and serendipity into one's scenario planning …
US Finds Putin Probably Did Not Order Navalny’s Death in February: Report
Intelligence officials in the United States have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably did not plan for jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny to be killed in February at an …
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Undersea Communications Cables and the Seabed Continue to Evolve as Threat Vectors and Contested Arenas
Back in March 2023, we provided an analysis of "Undersea Telecommunications Cables and the Seabed as Geopolitical Contested Arenas" which, at the time, we framed relative to a great power competition …
The February 2024 OODA Network Member Meeting Discussion of the Current Geopolitical Terrain
After the annual OODA CEO Matt Devost and OODA Network Members Review the OODA Almanac 2024 – Reorientation at the February 2024 OODA Network Member Meeting – which was held on Friday, February 16, …
Alexei Navalny’s funeral to be held on Friday in Moscow
Alexei Navalny's funeral is set to take place in Moscow on Friday, with a service planned at Borisovskoye Cemetery following a farewell ceremony at a local church. His widow, Yulia, expressed …
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