Geostrategy-Direct Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Hamburg, Germany for the G20 and his initial face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump as Russia was stuck “at a dead-end” (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Turkey now sits literally in the center of the Middle East’s “cauldron of terrorism,” which the Sunni Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “stirs vigorously and incompetently,” (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A well-entrenched North Korean army with large stockpiles of chemical weapons and an open-air detonation of a nuclear device by a desperate Kim Jong-Un are among the scenarios (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct In the days before President Donald Trump took office, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Saudi interests aligned with those of the incoming U.S. administration. “The objectives we (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Since its inception in the Gulf state of Qatar in 1996, Al Jazeera “has infuriated Arab rulers” with its “media jihad” aimed at them as well as Israel, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Three top-level Obama administration officials have been subpoenaed by a House committee looking into the improper unmasking of Americans who were surveilled during foreign intelligence gathering operations. The (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct With an eye on North Korea, CIA Director Mike Pompeo is taking steps to boost the capabilities of a branch of the agency that was weakened by the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct President Donald Trump has one of the “greatest opportunities in nearly five decades to change and modify” America’s policy on China “to its more logical course,” a China (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Foreign cyber warriors are constantly upping their game, threatening more sophisticated and precise attacks on U.S. infrastructure, the head of U.S. Cyber Command said. “We assess that several (more…)