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SSG Newslitter – December 2022
Welcome to the FIRST monthly SSG newslitter from the Security Principal. Yes ‘newslitter’. So much is happening, and at such pace, that the news each day is akin to wind-blown...
Evolving Meanings of the War for Ukraine – Winning, Losing, Fearing, Needing #2
Download as PDF Introduction The war for Ukraine continues making the transition to the next global ‘normal’ more complicated, more chronologically unpredictable, and more...
Evolving Meanings of the War for Ukraine: Winning, Losing, Fearing, Needing
Introduction The war for Ukraine has made the transition to the next global ‘normal’ overwhelmingly intense, chronologically unpredictable, and massively costly. Never before...
Essay: COVID-19: A Pandemic of Assassinated Assumptions: A Perfect Storm for Leaders
First published Dec. 14th 2020. Provocation The global pandemic was declared by the WHO on 11 March, signalling that COVID-19 had or was about to reach all shores. Since then,...
Blog: A Pandemic Plateau is False Comfort
Suddenly, and now for nearly two months, everyone on earth knows what the issue is: COVID -19. The massive majority of humanity were given no choice but to ‘know’ they had to do...
Foresight’s FOUR Frames
The full Essay has been published in Cadmus Journal Vol. 3, Issue 3 (p. 113-121) and is available here: Foresight’s FOUR Frames (October 2017) Abstract Strategic Foresight is...