Jan 29, 2020, 3:10 PM

(go where everyone goes)

Most of what I get is from google alerts on keyword searches.

Otherwise I only follow data driven organizations: RAND, SSI (Army War College), CSIS, CNSAS, CIA. (The rest are – honestly – bullshit policy bloggers searching for donors.)

I use CIA Fact Book, and Global Firepower sites regularly.

To find things quickly I use the reference links in wikipedia.

BUILDING A LIST

Take this next list. Go to google alerts. create an alert for each of them. (Really. that’s all I do). Repeat for Russia, middle east, china. If you pick Europe you will just find nonsense.)

THINK TANKS NORTH AMERICAN DEFENSE LIST (80+)

Open Think Tank Directory

GOOGLE ALERTS

Then pick some keywords, to make another set of alerts: I use military, strategy, forces, infantry, report, and about a dozen others in various permutations.

Russian think tanks are useful for me. So I follow ??? (Center for Strategic Research). ?A?T Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies. There are also a number of bloggers that are quite good.

For overviews for newbs follow Shervan’s Caspian Report on Youtube, Stratfor, George Friedman, and of course, Peter Zeihan for the Stratfor version with humor and irony.