Zelensky, Trump and Yun Sun: Dominating the Great Game
Dossier: Global Balance of Power Geostrategy-Direct, March 4, 2025 By Richard Fisher United States President Donald Trump is engaged in a high stakes gamble to change the “correlation of (more…)
Report slams current Space Force’s ‘competitive endurance’ approach
Dossier: U.S. Space Force Geostrategy-Direct, February 25, 2025 U.S. Space Force was created by President Donald Trump during his first term, but much of its current approach was drafted (more…)
Like DJT, Elbridge Colby bucks conventional strategic wisdom on Iran, CCP
Dossier: Elbridge Colby Geostrategy-Direct, February 18, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for the key position of undersecretary of defense policy aligns with the president’s unconventional vision for answering (more…)
Loyal to Erdogan? No, Turkish officers still uphold Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk)
Dossier: Turkey’s Military Culture Geostrategy-Direct, February 11, 2025 Analysis by Lt.-Gen. (rtd.) Lazaros Kampouridis, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Bureau Chief, Eastern Mediterranean The dismissal by early February 2025 of (more…)
Analyst: Only Trump stands in way of Xi’s brutal plans for South Korea, Japan
Dossier: China’s East Asia Ambitions Geostrategy-Direct, February 4, 2025 Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s lofty ambition of world dominance begins with aligning the stars in the East Asia (more…)
Major reforms eyed for ineffective U.S. media agency
Dossier: U.S. Agency for Global Media Geostrategy-Direct, January 28, 2025 The Trump administration has set in motion a major overhaul of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which (more…)
Hailed at home as ‘conqueror of Syria,’ Turkey’s Erdogan advances strategic vision
Dossier: Turkey and Post-Assad Syria Geostrategy-Direct, January 21, 2025 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had long faced criticism at home for what was seen as his interventionist policies in (more…)
China’s mounting clout in Latin America spurs Trump stance on Panama Canal
Dossier: China and the Americas Geostrategy-Direct, January 14, 2025 By Richard Fisher Recent reports out of Brazil note that China has tried but failed to sell Brazil its Chengdu (more…)
Report: U.S. could lose future war following attacks on homeland strategic infrastructure
Dossier: Strategic Infrastructure Geostrategy-Direct, January 8, 2025 The vulnerability of critical private sector infrastructure could defeat the United States in a future military conflict, according to a new report (more…)