Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Appearing before the annual “Shangri-La” dialogue in Singapore of Britain’s International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan indicated (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct On May 23, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum directing the intelligence community to “quickly and fully cooperate” with Attorney General William Barr’s investigation into intelligence surveillance (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The United States is intent on keeping Huawei Technologies from dominating the 5G market and is pressing its allies to help keep the Chinese tech giant from doing (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China is well on its way to achieving supreme leader Xi Jinping’s goal of transforming the military into “a first tier force” by 2050, the chief of the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The leader of Hamas thanked Iran for sending the Gaza-based terror organization hundreds of rockets that were used to strike Israel last month and warned the Jewish state (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Western intelligence on North Korea is primarily limited to satellite photos, regional specialists readily admit. Its weakness in human intelligence (HUMINT) was again demonstrated by recent conflicting reports (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China has slowed down its military buildup in the South China Sea not because it has had a change of heart but because it believes its work is (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On June 2, 2019 Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe used the first appearance at Shangri La in eight years by a Chinese official of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Analysis by Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs In late April, Iranian military delegations led by senior commanders traveled overseas. Navy Commander Rear-Adm. Hossein Khanzadi led (more…)
