Geostrategy-Direct The Pentagon has asked for $304 million in the 2020 defense budget to develop space-based weapons. Department of Defense officials said they plan to test a neutral particle-beam in (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been slowly plotting Turkey’s ultimate departure from NATO since he first came to power as prime minister in 2002, an analyst said. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The newly formed U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being lead by former Obama administration officials and an ex-Google executive who was a major donor (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct New satellite images appear to support an Israeli report that Iran is building a factory in northwestern Syria for the assembly of precision guided missiles. ImageSat International (ISI) (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China has responded to a March 17 Reuters report that credited direct intervention by Trump administration officials in averting a threatened exchange of missile strikes (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China has set up a special branch of the military for space warfare, according to a U.S. Air Force report. The space corps within the PLA Strategic Support (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The Trump administration has decided to resume major arms sales to Taiwan, breaking with trend of the Obama and Bush administrations. Previously the United Sates (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A group called the Cheollima Civil Defense may be the first organized opposition to the communist Kim dynasty in North Korea. Little is known about the group which (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On March 14 the Chinese website “Shipoe.com” published a tender for an experimental nuclear powered surface ship that could lead to nuclear powered surface combatants (more…)
