Jasper Creed
Jasper Creed is the working byline of a defence and strategic affairs correspondent who would rather be late and right than early and wrong. He writes from no fixed bureau, files at irregular intervals, and answers his own correspondence.
"Considered without urgency. Written without flattery. Read, one hopes, in good company and with reasonable wine."
The publication
The Geopolitical Intelligence Review began on 4 March 2026 with a forensic accounting of the Iran-Israel-US missile war. Fifty-one editions later, it has covered the war's opening, its grinding middle phase, its bewildering ceasefire, the post-war architecture, the Dhurandhar trilogy, and a small library of opinion pieces.
It is published when the correspondent has something to say, and not when he does not.
What you will find here
Fifty-one editions in PDF, organised by phase. The Dhurandhar trilogy and its epilogue, which constitute the publication's most ambitious extended work. The occasional satirical dispatch, when the day's events are best engaged on those terms.
What you will not find
Hot takes. Live blogs. Quote tweets. Engagement metrics. A monetised newsletter platform. A WhatsApp channel. A Substack. A podcast. A Twitter feed. The correspondent maintains an email address and considers it sufficient.
Correspondence
The correspondent's preferences, in order: phone conversations, physically written letters, written email. He reads everything, replies to most, and is — as those who have written will confirm — reliably more interesting in private than in public.