Geostrategy-Direct Iran is concealing its role as the dominant actor in the Syrian conflict while moving closer to the Israeli border, a pair of Middle East analysts said in (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Taliban and Islamic State’s Afghan affiliate are threatening to derail the Trump administration’s goal of ending the 17-year-old war in Afghanistan. Reports on Aug. 13 said that (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Has a possible visit to North Korea by Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping or plans for a military parade led to the suspension of China tourism to the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct All U.S. defense personnel in “operational areas” have been banned from using devices which track the user’s geolocation. The ban, enacted earlier this month by the Pentagon, includes (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The smallest nation in Asia has succumbed to pressure from the largest nation in Asia by kicking out its closest neighbor’s military personnel unceremoniously. Last week, the Maldives (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Dr. Assad Homayoun, Gregory Copley, and Yossef Bodansky, Defense & Foreign Affairs Watch for Maj.-Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Commander of the Quds Force (Jaysh al-Qods or Failaq al-Qods) (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Israel’s spy agency was behind the assassination of one of Syria’s top rocket scientists, a Middle Eastern intelligence operative reportedly said. Aziz Asbar, who is believed to have (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Russia is engaged in a “pervasive messaging campaign” to “weaken and divide the United States” ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, top U.S. intelligence officials said. Media reports (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Japan is the most snubbed country in the latest blitz of international dramas on the denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-Un seems particularly contemptuous (more…)
