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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?

Chair's Blog
25th November 2020

The Biden Doctrine, China and RCEP

Chair's Blog
5th November 2020

Does America (Still) Want to Lead the Free World?

Chair's Blog
16th September 2020

September 15th, 1940!

Chair's Blog
4th September 2020

Integrated Review 2020 and the United Kingdom Future Force

Chair's Blog
5th August 2020

Summer Essay: Trump, Germany and the Pom-American Grenadier

Chair's Blog
23rd July 2020

Little Britain 2? A Hard Rain is Cummings

Chair's Blog
27th May 2020

China: Power, Payback and Statecraft

Chair's Blog
13th May 2020

Reflecting on NATO 2030

Chair's Blog
29th March 2020

Operation Infektion 2020

Chair's Blog
19th March 2020

COVID-19: The Silk Road Pandemic

Chair's Blog
24th January 2020

Permanent Putin Power

Chair's Blog
19th December 2019

Why Britain’s new Aircraft Carriers are not ‘National Delusions’

Chair's Blog
13th December 2019

The Boris Factor

Chair's Blog
7th December 2019

The 2019 NATO London Charter

Chair's Blog
26th November 2019

The Future of Airborne?

Chair's Blog
26th November 2019

Maginot NATO? How to Fight a War when the Roof Caves in?

Chair's Blog
15th November 2019

Europe Puissance or Macro-Gaullisme?

Chair's Blog
1st November 2019

The Digital Fog of Future War and Allied Command Education

Chair's Blog
17th October 2019

The Riga Test 2019

Chair's Blog
26th September 2019

Fusion Defence

Chair's Blog
24th August 2019

Chair’s Blog, The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact

Chair's Blog
24th July 2019

Chair’s Blog, One Small Step…

Chair's Blog
5th July 2019

Chair’s Blog, ACE 2: America, NATO and the Future Defence of Europe


The Alphen Group

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.