Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In the early to mid-2010s as the People’s Liberation Army Second Artillery, called the PLA Rocket Force after 2015, was clearly developing new and more varied (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Taiwan will soon be getting from the United States the long-endurance, high-altitude Reaper drone. The famed U.S. weapon has been used in the Middle East to target and (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China recently announced the deployment of its DF-17 hypersonic missile and Russia reports it is also developing and testing hypersonic missiles. The United States, meanwhile, is playing catch (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: The New Middle East Matrix Amid a flurry of activity in which U.S. President Donald Trump has brokered peace deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iranian media on Oct. 14 reported a “large-scale” cyberattack against two government institutions. Tasnim reported that one of the targets was the electronic infrastructure of the country’s ports. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Kim Jong-Un, at times breaking out in tears, used the 75th anniversary of the founding of North Korea’s ruling party on Oct. 10 to unveil an intercontinental ballistic (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: China’s biological weapons A defector from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has helped U.S. intelligence agencies increase their knowledge of communist China’s covert biological weapons program, a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct More than a year after Turkey was kicked out of the U.S. F-35 program, Turkish manufacturers are still reportedly part of the supply chain for the stealth fighter. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is developing what Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping calls an “informatized” military that will dominate information operations in any conflict or “non-war” activity, (more…)