Geostrategy-Direct Widespread anti-government protests that erupted in Iran in late December were sparked both from within and outside the Islamic Republic, analysts say. Young Iranians, teachers unions and people (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The CIA under Director Mike Pompeo is taking a page from its Cold War predecessors by making counterintelligence a top priority. Dean Boyd, CIA director of public affairs, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct It’s a dangerous game, but South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In is taking the risk: he is striving to please Beijing at any cost and recalibrating relations with his (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct In his first national security strategy, U.S. President Donald Trump called for a “great reawakening” of winning American power that includes improved missile defenses and “information statecraft” aimed (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct With its latest ICBM test on Nov. 29, North Korea is said to have the capability to hit any part of the United States with its nuclear missiles. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Gen. Mike Flynn was the driving force behind the Trump administration’s national security strategy and a major critic of former President Barack Obama’s chief diplomatic legacy – the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The case against a Turkish-Iranian gold trader who allegedly engineered a massive bribery scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran could also implicate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct DOSSIER Israel is prepared to “exchange intelligence information” with Saudi Arabia and “other moderate Arab countries,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff said. “We need to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Newly-released documents obtained in the final raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan show complicity between Shia Iran, Sunni Saudi sheikhs and the Al Qaida terror (more…)