Geostrategy-Direct The Trump Administration has moved decisively to reassert the traditional U.S. role in the Middle East, much to the consternation of the regime in Iran. The new direction (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Joint naval Iran-China naval exercises are being conducted near the Strait of Hormuz in the aftermath of several tense encounters between Iran and the U.S. in and around (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Trump administration is ignoring China’s extravagant sovereignty claims over much if not all of the South China Sea. In defiance of those claims, the U.S. is sending (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The announcement by four Sunni Arab states that they would sever diplomatic ties with Qatar comes as new strategic frameworks are taking shape in a region increasingly dominated (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Since its inception in the Gulf state of Qatar in 1996, Al Jazeera “has infuriated Arab rulers” with its “media jihad” aimed at them as well as Israel, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The shocking June 7 terror attack on the parliament in Teheran was “backed by U.S. clients,” Iranian officials said. Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack that (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Trump-Russia investigations, which have resulted in the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, is merely the “ruling class, led by the Democratic Party, trying to reverse the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China has made another breakthrough in the use of hypersonic missiles that U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said represents one of the new dangers posed by rapid technological (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Targets of a nuclear North Korea should not assume the Kim Jong-Un regime would adhere to the rules of war that constrain Russia and the United States, analysts (more…)
