Feb. 25, 2026

Strategic Assessment 2025: Evolving Great Power Competition at Mid-Decade

The geostrategic framework of international relations at mid-decade remains heavily conditioned and shaped by Great Power Competition (GPC) between three rivalrous, globally dominant states: the United States, China and Russia. After more than two decades of mainly cooperation and collaboration, these Great Powers drifted into de-facto rivalrous competition at the end of the 2000s. By the middle of the twenty-tens, their undeclared but obvious rivalry intensified, and their major interactions shifted from those of cooperation and collaboration to competition, confrontation and preparation for potential armed clash.

Feb. 12, 2026

Understanding Space Frontier Areas

Distant reaches of space loom as a strategic horizon. The vast majority of space operations have, so far, been limited to a few families of near-Earth orbits. However, space beyond geostationary Earth orbit, or xGEO, is likely to become important for strategic purposes in the near future. This is especially true of cislunar space, that region of space in which the gravity of Earth’s moon is significant. This paper refers to xGEO and cislunar space as Space Frontier Areas, since missions there have not yet reached sufficient scale to cluster into patterns of use.