Geostrategy-Direct By Donald Kirk SEOUL — The mad dash of a North Korean soldier across the North-South line in the truce village of Panmunjom exposes the weakness of both (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Taiwan’s defense officials are furious with a reporter from a U.S.-based radio station for asking a seemingly mundane question that inadvertently touched a most sensitive spot of Taiwan’s (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct South Korea and the United States will discuss Seoul’s possible acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines. South Korea announced last week that President Moon Jae-In and U.S. President Trump would hold working-level (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Recent satellite imagery shows that Iran is constructing a permanent military facility inside Syria, according to a British news report. A Western intelligence source told the BBC on (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Editors’ Note: Due to a technical malfunction, the Nov. 14 edition was delayed and the weekly e-mail Headline Alert did not move as scheduled. The new edition is (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A top official at the leading Russian state-own arms exporting conglomerate said on Nov. 2 that Turkey’s purchase of Russia’s top-of-the-line S-400 air defense system was worth over (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct State-run CCTV carried a report last month which featured the first images of China’s secret hypersonic aircraft. The Oct. 8 broadcast displayed images of the craft which U.S. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China pulled out all the stops for U.S. President Donald Trump’s first visit while sticking to its strategy of slow and intermittent advances in the contested South China (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A new book details how a former Israeli commando who would go on to head up the Mossad spy agency developed a task force that successfully focused on (more…)
