Strategy&Future

Intermarium Weekly 19-26.08.2020

Turkey’s New Global Posture: Grand Strategy and Geopolitical Imperatives. Part III

“If you destroy the country’s first President, this will be the beginning of the end – you will always be on your knees.” Alexander Lukashenko still seeks to frame himself as a guarantor of national independence and sovereignty. But have people already stopped listening? Turnout at last weekend’s pro-Lukashenko rally in Minsk was visibly far smaller than that of the anti-Lukashenko protests in other parts of the city taking place at the same time.

The Baltic-Eastern Mediterranean zone which divides the European peninsula from the rest of Eurasia is becoming dangerously unstable. Last week there were reports that the row between Ankara and Athens had evolved into a more aggressive stage with the danger of direct military confrontation. This time, it was not about traditional insults and threats. If before there were mere diplomatic and political disputes over many issues, harming relations between these two neighboring countries, the escalation ladder is now becoming highly unpredictable.

Turkey’s New Global Posture: Grand Strategy and Geopolitical Imperatives. Part II

Intermarium Weekly 05-11.08.2020

The main feature of the Anglo-Saxon world is global dominance and its customary law and institutions that they dominate over the World Ocean.

None of the geopolitical actors in Eurasia and beyond were ready for Turkey to come up with such ambitions and with such an omnidirectional grand strategy encompassing the whole of West Eurasia.

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Ahead of the New Frontier: from Naval Warfare Theory to Space Strategy. Part II: The Geopolitical Principles and Imperatives for a future war in Outer Space

“All of mankind is interested in barring the road toward transforming space into an arena of military rivalries.” Soviet Radio, 1966[1] Galactic warfare is usually compared to battles at sea. This comparison is generally fair. It should only be borne in mind that space is immeasurably poorer in stellar systems than the sea is in ocean islands. And among the stars, not everyone has valuable planets, especially bases and especially supply bases. Thus, the value of such stars is growing incredibly: the possession of the galaxy can be reduced to control over units of stellar systems. The subject of war in space is the planet. Inhabited planets. Base planets. And nothing else. No one will ever fight for emptiness. Numerous fiction, depicting battles in outer space, is completely groundless. “Galactic Wars: A Short Course” (1998) Sergey Pereslegin [1] John E. Hyten, ‘Space Mission Force: Developing Space Warfighters for Tomorrow’, US Air Force, 29 Jun 2016, p.1