London rocks Moscow with news UK bank will close RT accounts
NatWest, a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, announced in mid-October that it plans to close the UK accounts of Russia Today, also known as RT. RT (more…)
Seoul weighs re-introduction of U.S. nukes that were withdrawn in 1991
A South Korean presidential advisory agency has advised President Park Geun-Hye to explore the re-deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea. During much of the Cold War, the (more…)
Japan to expand lone overseas military base – in Djibouti – to counter China
Japan has officially unveiled a plan to expand its military base in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa overlooking the Red Sea and the Sea of Aden. The move (more…)
China, South Korea maritime brawls fuel mounting bilateral tensions
How times have changed. Only a year ago, Beijing and Seoul seemed united on a major strategic partnership, threatening to break up the pivotal Washington-led mutual defense alliance system (more…)
Frustrated by failure of sanctions, U.S. focuses on Chinese firms working with N. Korea
The United States is zeroing in on Chinese companies that violate sanctions by doing business with North Korea as the failure of past strategies to stop strategic advances in (more…)
Iran-backed trouble flares in Gulf of Aden in waning months of the Obama era
In what may be Iran’s idea of a proper send-off for U.S. President Barack Obama, Teheran has been harassing U.S. vessels in the Gulf and has armed Houthi rebels (more…)
Pentagon confronts new ISIL weapon: commercial drones that explode
U.S. intelligence had known for quite some time that Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) was using small commercial drones for battlefield surveillance. What wasn’t anticipated, however, was (more…)
Hillary Clinton: Candidate backed Muslim Brotherhood, called Morsi’s election ‘milestone’
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi two months before the Sept. 11, 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, calling the Muslim Brotherhood-backed candidate’s victory a (more…)
Low-profile, high-altitude U.S. agency confirms island buildup is ‘for military purposes’
China is using strategic camouflage in the South China Sea by constructing commercial facilities that can easily be converted for military use, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (more…)