Armstrong & Associates is a private strategic advisory firm. We help principals, candidates, institutions, and family offices read political environments, assess risk, and make decisions in complex geographies. We have been doing that work for more than thirty years.
We advise principals, candidates, institutions, and family offices on political environments where the ground shifts quickly. The work is reading the board, assessing the risk, and putting the assessment in front of the person who has to act on it.
Our network, built over three decades, covers Ukraine, Russia, and the wider European theatre. It includes officials, journalists, operators, and intermediaries we have worked with over many years.
We take a small number of engagements each quarter. Clients come by referral. Assessments are delivered in writing, by telephone, and in person.
Retained counsel to principals, candidates, and institutions operating in politically complex environments.
Private written and spoken briefings on Ukraine, Russia, and the wider European political picture.
Market entry into Ukraine for foreign principals, with introductions to government, commercial counterparts, and investors from a network built over three decades.
Through our affiliate Golden Gate Travel: principal movement and in-country coordination in contested territory.
Long-form research, op-ed placement, and press strategy for campaigns, institutions, and nonprofit principals.
Governance, risk, and strategic oversight for organizations working in politically sensitive geographies.
An essay on the game Moscow is actually playing, and what thirty years of reading the wrong board has cost the West.
Read the essay →"I wish you Americans would stop saying that. He doesn't play chess. He plays Go. He even flies a GO master from China to Moscow to sharpen his game."
A source dropped a USB drive into my hand on a sunny afternoon in a park and corrected a mistake I had not known I was making. I left with a different lens. Two decades of Putin's behaviour began to make sense.
The essay is about the cost of getting that wrong, and about the game already underway while the West is still studying the wrong board.
Daily Ukraine intelligence and long-form political analysis for Western policymakers. The publishing vehicle for the GO Doctrine and the running assessment that flows from it.
Fixer services, principal movement, and in-country coordination for journalists, diplomats, humanitarian coordinators, and private clients whose work requires presence in contested territory.
For an initial inquiry, please contact us directly by email. The firm responds to serious inquiries within two business days.