Category: Chair’s Blog


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Chair's Blog
1st November 2025

One-China: Listen to Beijing

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
20th October 2025

Rose-tinted Riga: The Riga Test 2025“Nostalgia is not a strategy”.

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
2nd October 2025

Russia, War, and You!

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
2nd October 2025

TAG Ukraine Assessment

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
23rd September 2025

Israel’s One State Solution

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
15th September 2025

Battle of Britain Day: September 15th, 1940!

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
12th September 2025

Good Citizens, the Global Free and Affording Peace

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
24th August 2025

Re-Decoupling: Russia’s Next Aggression Strategy

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
11th April 2025

Trump, Tariffs, Geoeconomics and Geopolitics

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
3rd March 2025

Be Careful, Mr President!

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
18th February 2025

Fog in the Atlantic, America Isolated?

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
14th February 2025

Paper Leviathans: Lawfare does not stop Warfare!

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
8th February 2025

Oslo Security Conference Speech

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
5th December 2024

Virtue Imperialism: Law, Disorder and Power

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
13th November 2024

Riga Test 2024: Mean What we Say, Do What We Say!

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
7th June 2024

D-Day 80!

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
24th May 2024

Putin’s Power Protection Racket

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
2nd April 2024

TAG TRANSATLANTIC COMPACT

By Members of TAG

Chair's Blog
12th February 2024

No Way Norway!

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
3rd January 2024

2024 or 1848?

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
28th November 2023

Is This Ukraine’s Munich Moment?

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
18th November 2023

What Jinping Really Said to Joe

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
15th October 2023

Israel, Hamas, and the Iran Trap

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
14th September 2023

War, Peace, and Power

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
24th August 2023

Ukraine Peace by Peace

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
24th June 2023

NATO Vilnius: Conniving France, Foolish Britain, Cold Turkey

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
1st June 2023

Ukraine: When to be Offensive?

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
1st June 2023

Dambuster 80

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
2nd April 2023

NATO TECHNOLOGY TRENDS 2023-2043

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
20th March 2023

Britain’s Down-payment Defence Review

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
22nd February 2023

A Comprehensive Strategy To Secure Ukraine’s Future

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
3rd January 2023

Kontesting Kissinger

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
7th December 2022

Survey of the Overall Situation in and beyond Ukraine

By Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
5th November 2022

“This Means War” Podcast: Future War in 2035 and Deterrence

Chair's Blog
3rd November 2022

Is Britain Failing the Riga Test? 

By Julian Lindley-French, Chair of The Alphen Group

Chair's Blog
31st October 2022

Putin’s next escalation is coming. How should the West respond?

By Hans Binnendijk, Alexander Vershbow, and Julian Lindley-French

Chair's Blog
26th September 2022

Is Ukraine about to Win?

By Julian Lindley-French, Chair of The Alphen Group

Chair's Blog
9th September 2022

Steadfast, Strong and Wise: Queen Elizabeth II and the world stage

Chair's Blog
6th July 2022

NATO’s Clint Eastwood Doctrine

By Julian Lindley-French, Chair of The Alphen Group

Chair's Blog
13th June 2022

Putin the Great’s NATO

Chair's Blog
10th May 2022

Putin’s Ground Truth?

Chair's Blog
20th January 2022

VSF 2022: Ukraine Guidance

Chair's Blog
3rd November 2021

Is NATO a Maginot Line?

Chair's Blog
21st September 2021

AUKUS

Chair's Blog
8th September 2021

Summer Essay: A Failure of Will and Competence

Chair's Blog
30th June 2021

Freedom of Provocation?

Chair's Blog
15th April 2021

The future of war and defence in Europe

Chair's Blog
25th March 2021

Global Britain or Little Britain?

Chair's Blog
14th December 2020

Britain, Brexit and NATO 2030

Chair's Blog
2nd December 2020

Never Closer Union?


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The Alphen Group (TAG) is an informal network of leading strategic thinkers who have come together to consider the future of the transatlantic relationship and European security and defence and do something about it.