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John Sitilides Geopolitical & Geo-Economic Strategist; Expert in Global Affairs and American Politics; Senior Fellow for National Security, Foreign Policy Research Institute

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  • NATO Needs to Get Serious at 75

    February 2024: NATO's seventy-fifth anniversary celebration in Washington, DC must offer a strategic vision for transatlantic security amid the most challenging geopolitical landscape since the end of the Cold War. Potential conflicts throughout the alliance's European and Eurasian periphery also threaten to draw NATO or its respective members into new hot wars. Magnified geopolitical disruption at the nexus of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East portends a more challenging future for NATO than US and other Western political leaders seem prepared to confront.

  • "Geopolitics & Supply Chains"

    January 2024 report on the geopolitics of global supply chains, including the growing Middle East shipping disruptions, for the industry journal “The Purchaser,” examining the trends and technologies impacting procurement and supply chain executives across all major industry sectors.

  • "Geopolitical Risk & Energy: International Security Upheavals Impacting Strategic Planning"

    January 2024 report on the geopolitics of global energy markets published in NAPE Magazine for its energy industry decision-maker audience.

  • Robert O'Brien's task as Trump's new national security adviser begins Charting the demanding geopolitical agenda

    The appointment of Robert O'Brien, a skilled negotiator and non-ideological foreign policy professional, to succeed John Bolton as national security adviser marks a significant turning point in the White House's national security strategy to confront and prevail against robust adversaries, especially China and Iran, in an increasingly complex and dangerous international landscape.

  • Guarding maritime chokepoints against worldwide disruption

    The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy recognizes Moscow’s newfound regional power status, buttressed by 49-year leases to maintain and expand Russian naval and air bases on Syria’s Mediterranean coast. Moscow is now positioned to project greater military power and diplomatic influence throughout southeastern Europe and the Middle East than at any time since it was expelled from Egypt in the early 1970s.

  • The national infrastructure dilemma It may fail spectacularly if environmental regulations aren’t reformed first

    President-elect Donald Trump has proposed as one of his legislative priorities a $1 trillion national infrastructure program (“Trump’s infrastructure program,” Nov. 28). His goal of upgrading and modernizing America’s highways, airports, harbors, inland waterways, railways, electric transmission lines and water pipes and treatment plants — creating two million jobs in the process — is receiving broad bipartisan support.

  • How global risks will test the new administration Donald Trump must craft a geopolitical strategy that advances national security

    New Delhi’s independent foreign policy includes close commercial relations with Russia and Iran, and a strategic naval bulwark against Chinese power. Pakistan is integral to Beijing’s colossal infrastructure network to European, Indian Ocean and African ports. Its nuclear arsenal could be overtaken by radical Islamists, the major reason U.S. forces remain engaged in neighboring Afghanistan. Balancing relations with both India and Pakistan is a constant White House priority.

  • Vortex of turmoil, vacuum of power

    Washington Times, June 5, 2016