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Gregory R. Copley

Gregory Copley

Contributor since: 29 Sep 2011

Gregory R. Copley

Historian, author, and strategic analyst — and onetime industrialist — Gregory R. Copley, who was born in 1946, has for almost five decades worked at the highest levels with various governments around the world, advising on national security, intelligence, and national management issues. He has authored or co-authored more than 35 books, including "The Art of Victory" (2006), "UnCivilization: Urban Geopolitics in a Time of Chaos" (2012), and "Sovereignty in the 21st Century and the Crisis for Identity, Cultures, Nation-States, and Civilizations" (2018). An Australian, he is President of the International Strategic Studies Association, based in Washington, DC, and Editor-in-Chief of the "Defense & Foreign Affairs" group of publications, including the government-only intelligence service, the Global Information System. Among his international recognitions, he was, in 2007, made a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours. www.StrategicStudies.org.

Gregory Copley, AM, GCHT*, FRCGS, FSS, FRSN

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Latest articles from Gregory

  • Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Will Benefit China

    Published 07 March 2022 | viewed 11,075 times

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    The current unrest in the Kazakhstan capital, Nur-Sultan, and other Kazakh cities (particularly Almaty, the commercial capital), has broad implications for the security of Central…

  • 9 Major Consequences Of The U.S. Failure In Afghanistan

    Published 30 August 2021 | viewed 7,666 times

    Old-fashioned civil war had resumed in Afghanistan by about mid-August 2021. Overt internationalization of the war there had ended, but discreet internationalization of the war returned to…

  • China Could Invade Taiwan's 'Oil Island'

    Published 06 July 2020 | viewed 28,397 times

    The People’s Republic of China (PRC) seemed to be considering, by July 2020, whether to risk early military conflict as a means of moving its…

  • Is The U.S. Prepared For War With China?

    Published 25 May 2020 | viewed 136,754 times

    Mid-2020 saw the world at war, actual strategic war as far as the Forbidden Palace in Beijing was concerned. This was almost disbelievingly acknowledged by…

  • Why Oil Is Critical To U.S. Survival

    Published 06 May 2020 | viewed 37,230 times

    One more word on Beijing’s plans leading up to, and during, the 2020 crisis. This crisis was to be the pivotal point for the Communist…

  • China Is Waging A New Kind Of War Against The U.S.

    Published 21 April 2020 | viewed 106,935 times

    Beijing made it clear in 1999 that when it went to war with the US it would be a new kind of war. People’s Republic…

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    Published 31 March 2020 | viewed 13,421 times

    Iran has lacked viable, legitimate, and representative governance since February 1979. That has been demonstrated by its social and economic performance domestically. Its clerical Government…

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    Published 29 March 2020 | viewed 64,622 times

    The rush to what is essentially a new wartime footing began consciously and urgently in the first quarter of 2020 between some of the most…

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    Published 04 February 2020 | viewed 35,284 times

    The year 2020 could emerge as the start of the era of relative global chaos or major upheaval. It is the era we have been…

  • Iran's Retaliation Could Cause A Middle East Oil Shock

    Published 06 January 2020 | viewed 33,918 times

    Iran’s clerical leadership, under “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Hoseini Khamene‘i, is expected to make rapid, significant, and symbolic responses to the targeted killing in Baghdad…

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    Published 07 September 2019 | viewed 27,120 times

    The war in Yemen has now proven to be a key trigger for the reduction of the US’ 70-year strategic dominance of the Persian Gulf…

  • The U.S. Is Losing Influence In The World’s Biggest Oil Region

    Published 15 April 2019 | viewed 17,606 times

    Egyptian President Abdul Fatah al-Sisi’s visit to the White House on April 9, 2019, resulted in one of the worst setbacks for U.S. Middle Eastern…

  • What’s Next For Algeria As Bouteflika Steps Down

    Published 04 April 2019 | viewed 11,186 times

    What does the resignation on April 2, 2019, of Algerian Pres. Abdelaziz Bouteflika mean for the future of his country and the region, and why…

  • Saudi Arabia’s Biggest Geopolitical Error

    Published 10 December 2018 | viewed 26,006 times

    War is inherently risk-intense, and therefore is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly. The more comprehensive the engagement the less predictable…

  • A Watershed Moment Is Looming For Iran

    Published 08 September 2018 | viewed 22,127 times

    Strenuous domestic and international posturing by political leaders in Iran during July, August, and into September 2018 highlighted the degree of stress which Iranian leadership…

  • US-Turkish Relations Come To A Head, But Is A Break Inevitable?

    Published 16 August 2018 | viewed 11,989 times

    Turkish Pres. Reçep Tayyip Erdogan believes the U.S. will stop short of forcing Turkey out of NATO, destroying its currency, and pushing it into an…

  • Oil Kingdom In Crisis: Saudi Royal Family Rift Turns Violent

    Published 04 June 2018 | viewed 96,301 times

    Saudi Arabia has plunged its immediate region into major strategic uncertainty. What can only be described as a serious outbreak of shooting in the Royal…

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    Published 09 May 2018 | viewed 196,378 times

    U.S. President Donald Trump on May 8, 2018, fulfilled a major campaign promise to his voters by withdrawing the U.S. from the 2015 JCPOA (Joint…

  • The Truth About Peace On The Korean Peninsula

    Published 07 May 2018 | viewed 14,964 times

    Suddenly, the lights of the diplomatic theater dim, and a wider cast of players — more than the program seemed to indicate — move in…

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