Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Russia’s Wagner Group Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Moscow carefully managed the brief mutiny (June 23-25, 2023) of its Wagner Group of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: U.S. banking system Wealthy Americans are demonstrating their faith in the banking system. They are withdrawing billions of dollars from U.S. banks. In the first quarter of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Established 53 years after NATO, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is already putting together a group of countries, with a recent focus on (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: National Security Policy Under Xi Jinping In the early stages of his regime, the official security policy of Chinese leader Xi Jinping emphasized ideology and the endemic (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: U.S. Bases on Okinawa Okinawa, the main island in the Ryukyu Island chain, sits between the southern Japan mainland, Taiwan, and China. It is also close to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Turkey’s Erdogan Era Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has governed quite differently in his 20 years in power. His tenure began under the eye of the secular (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Richard Nixon’s Sino-Soviet Strategy Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The U.S. has, since the removal of President Richard Nixon in 1974, been (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Taiwan’s Strategic Assets Berkshire Hathaway recently divested 86 percent of its more than $4 billion in the Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC. Berkshire chairman and CEO Warren Buffeft told (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: China-UAE Strategic Relations U.S. intelligence detected new construction at a suspected Chinese military facility located in the United Arab Emirates, according to documents leaked in recent months (more…)