Geostrategy-Direct With their escape routes being closed off by Chinese authorities, women defecting from North Korea are being sold for as little as $841 to businesses running room salons, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher From Sept. 16 to 21, combined arms forces from Russia, China, plus India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan held the “Tsentr-2019” (Center-2019) military exercises (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed on Sept. 9 that a site in Iran that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a year ago called a “secret (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Japan’s detection on Sept. 10 of North Korea’s launching of two projectiles shows that its ability to monitor such actions have not been compromised by South Korea’s decision (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct United States F-35s and F-15s dropped 80,000 pounds (36,000 kilograms) of bombs on an island in the Tigris River in Iraq that Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists had set (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un insists on isolating the nation’s population from the world. Merely purchasing a Western-made movie on the black market can get a North Korean (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher From Aug. 23 to Sept. 7, the Pakistan Air Force and China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) held the largest and most sophisticated of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In a stark demonstration that Mother Nature can pose a formidable and unexpected obstacle to potential Chinese plans to achieve “unification by force” with Taiwan, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis During his time as head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Jim Mattis had long warned of Iran’s threat to Mideast stability. It (more…)