Geostrategy-Direct Chinese President Xi Jinping appears not only to have underestimated U.S. President Donald Trump, but also to have exposed Beijing’s weaknesses for the world to see. Trump’s ordered (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Bashar Assad’s decision to use sarin gas on his own people was intended to keep the United States and Russia from formulating a deal that would cripple the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct On April 6, hours before his meeting with President Xi Jinping of China in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, President Donald Trump called Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. The purpose (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Dr. Jack Caravelli President Donald Trump backed up statements about his revulsion at the Syrian military’s use of sarin gas that killed some 100 civilians and injured (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct After decades of frustration in seeking to acquire advanced submarines from the U.S. and Europe to counter China’s military threats, Taiwan is taking a different tack. President Tsai (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct As South Korean ties with China rapidly sour amid the bitter spat over THAAD deployment, a new point of confrontation that might lead to open military actions has (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Lasers, long the weapon of choice in the popular media, are incrementally becoming the real deal for the U.S. military. Laser weapons are now being deployed on American (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi used the cover of over a dozen car bombs to escape Mosul during Iraq’s offensive to drive the terror organization out (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line Shi’ite cleric, announced on April 9 he would try to unseat President Hassan Rouhani in the May election. A successful run for Raisi wold (more…)
