Geostrategy-Direct A lease agreement allowing a Chinese company to manage an Israeli port where U.S. Navy ships dock could undermine U.S.-Israeli intelligence sharing, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A wider contest for geopolitical influence in Southeast Asia between China and India is being played out in competition for Malaysia’s requirement for up to 36 lightweight jet (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The newly formed U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being lead by former Obama administration officials and an ex-Google executive who was a major donor (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China has responded to a March 17 Reuters report that credited direct intervention by Trump administration officials in averting a threatened exchange of missile strikes (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Trump administration has begun conducting counter-cyber attacks against Chinese intelligence and military targets, a report said. The new U.S. cyber operations may have included the theft of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher With the imminent formal demise of the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty due to Russian cheating, the U.S. is moving to rebuild its (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Two recent major failures highlight “how broken the U.S. intelligence system has become” since CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton was ousted in the 1970s, security correspondent Bill Gertz (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct NORINCO, the major Chinese ground force weapons developer and producer, used the 2019 International Defense Exhibition (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi, from Feb. 17 to 21, to reveal for (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad complained about bitter feuding in the Islamic regime in advance of his abrupt resignation. Zarif, who announced he was stepping down in a Feb. (more…)