Geostrategy-Direct On the 35th anniversary of Hizbullah’s 1983 truck bombing of the barracks in Beirut which killed 241 U.S. service members, President Donald Trump slapped new sanctions on Iran’s (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Two Iranian fast attack boats came within 300 yards of the USS Essex Wasp-class amphibious assault ship as it was conducting flight operations in the Persian Gulf on (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct For the first time since 1953, there are no more weapons of any kind on either side of the demarcation line at the famed border village of Panmunjom (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Fearful of further U.S. sanctions for doing business with Iran, the Chinese government has ordered its two petroleum monopolies to cease importing oil from Iran, at least for (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iran is sending terrorist operatives disguised as diplomats to its embassies abroad in order to foment unrest and silence opponents, a report by an Iranian dissident and intelligence (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The GDP per capita in North Korea is about $1,800, which ranks 197th in the world, according to the CIA World Factbook. While at least half of the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris said South Korean President Moon Jae-In must coordinate his ambitions for reconciliation with North Korea with the U.S., whose military forces (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on a network of business groups it said was financing an Iranian paramilitary group known for its heinous civil rights abuses (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A top Google official said the tech giant’s development of the Dragonfly search engine for China is “extremely important” as China is “arguably the most interesting market in (more…)