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Recent Posts

2nd April 2023

NATO TECHNOLOGY TRENDS 2023-2043

By Julian Lindley-French

20th March 2023

Britain’s Down-payment Defence Review

By Julian Lindley-French

22nd February 2023

A Comprehensive Strategy To Secure Ukraine’s Future

By Julian Lindley-French

3rd January 2023

Kontesting Kissinger

By Julian Lindley-French

7th December 2022

Survey of the Overall Situation in and beyond Ukraine

By Julian Lindley-French

5th November 2022

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

3rd November 2022

Is Britain Failing the Riga Test?

By Julian Lindley-French, Chair of The Alphen Group

31st October 2022

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

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

26th September 2022

Is Ukraine about to Win?

By Julian Lindley-French, Chair of The Alphen Group

9th September 2022

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

6th July 2022

NATO’s Clint Eastwood Doctrine

By Julian Lindley-French, Chair of The Alphen Group

13th June 2022

Putin the Great’s NATO

10th May 2022

Putin’s Ground Truth?

20th January 2022

VSF 2022: Ukraine Guidance

3rd November 2021

Is NATO a Maginot Line?

21st September 2021

AUKUS

8th September 2021

Summer Essay: A Failure of Will and Competence

30th June 2021

Freedom of Provocation?

15th April 2021

The future of war and defence in Europe

25th March 2021

Global Britain or Little Britain?

14th December 2020

Britain, Brexit and NATO 2030

2nd December 2020

Never Closer Union?

25th November 2020

The Biden Doctrine, China and RCEP

5th November 2020

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

16th September 2020

September 15th, 1940!

4th September 2020

Integrated Review 2020 and the United Kingdom Future Force

5th August 2020

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

23rd July 2020

Little Britain 2? A Hard Rain is Cummings

27th May 2020

China: Power, Payback and Statecraft

13th May 2020

Reflecting on NATO 2030

29th March 2020

Operation Infektion 2020

19th March 2020

COVID-19: The Silk Road Pandemic

24th January 2020

Permanent Putin Power

19th December 2019

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

13th December 2019

The Boris Factor

7th December 2019

The 2019 NATO London Charter

26th November 2019

The Future of Airborne?

26th November 2019

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

15th November 2019

Europe Puissance or Macro-Gaullisme?

1st November 2019

The Digital Fog of Future War and Allied Command Education

17th October 2019

The Riga Test 2019

26th September 2019

Fusion Defence

24th August 2019

Chair’s Blog, The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact

24th July 2019

Chair’s Blog, One Small Step…

5th July 2019

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

3rd July 2019

NATO: Fort Trump? Try ARRC Poland

24th June 2019

The Future Defence of Europe

13th June 2019

Anglo Nostalgia?

6th June 2019

D-Day: The Forging of an Alliance

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.