Strategy&Future

The globe is facing an unprecedented challenge which has its own name “COVID-19” and which definitely emanates a direct threat to humanity as a biological factor. But its power obviously is not enough to destroy humanity. Much more dangerous is the threat and challenges coming from the geopolitical and geoeconomic perspectives of this crisis triggered by COVID-19. It certainly has all chances to re-shuffle the global correlation of forces.

Weekly Brief 9–15.05.2020

Jacek Bartosiak o „Astropolitik. Classical Geopolitics in the Space Age” pióra Everetta C. Dolmana.

„Control of outer space means control of the world.” Lyndon B. Johnson, January 1959, at a meeting of the United States Senate Armed Forces Committee, of when he was vice president „The universe is an ocean, the moon is the Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands, Mars is Huangyan Island (Scarborough Shoal). If we don’t go there now even though we’re capable of doing so, then we will be blamed by our descendants. If others go there, then they will take over, and you won’t be able to go even if you want to. This is reason enough.” – Ye Peijian, head of the Chinese moon flight program

Widziane z zachodniego Limitrofu. Sprawy wojskowe na Wschodzie. Przegląd za okres 4–11.05.2020

Intermarium Weekly 6-12.05.2020

Kroniki COVID. Część 9

Legendarny niemiecki strateg wojskowy Helmuth von Moltke znany był z tego, że nie widział rzeki, lasu, pola, wzgórza, tylko „teren”, który się forsuje, za którym się chowa, który się omija, który umożliwia lub utrudnia manewr albo którędy się maszeruje. W astropolityce i związanej z nią astrostrategii jest (i będzie) tak samo. O tym jest niniejsza opowieść.

The legendary German military strategist Helmuth von Moltke was known for not seeing the river, the forest, the field and the hills, but the “terrain,” which you need to cross, where you march, hide or which provides or denies the line of sight and fire. In astropolitics and astrostrategy, it is (and will be) the same. And that’s what the following story is all about.

Jacek Bartosiak rozmawia z Tomaszem Grzywaczewskim, autorem książek o przestrzeni postsowieckiej i podróżnikiem – o Wschodzie, Syberii, Jakucji, Lenie i Jeniseju, śladach po Gułagu i o państwach nieuznawanych, jak Osetia Południowa czy Abchazja.

The US is planning to “fundamentally, not only reevaluate, but take actions that will start to undermine the long term relationship” with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), according to remarks by Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska on 11 April 2020. Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota said that the actions of Saudi Arabia – increasing oil supply during a time of negligible demand – “were inexcusable and won’t be forgotten.”

Weekly Brief 2–8.05.2020