China building warships at twice U.S. rate
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher According to Chinese sources the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is producing almost twice as many warships as is the United States. This data bolsters (more…)
Former counterintelligence officer indicts House ‘impeachment’ process
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Impeachment In the U.S. Congress, the House Intelligence Committee is so fixated on the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump that it is likely missing the real (more…)
Kim said torn between deathbed warning and new father-figure Trump
Geostrategy-Direct North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un said his father, Kim Jong-Il, told him never to give up the North’s nuclear weapons. A new book, however, said the younger Kim (more…)
China’s massive Oct. 1 parade appears geared for Taiwan action
Geostrategy-Direct China’s massive display of firepower at the Oct. 1 military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party was in part showing off its (more…)
North Korea’s ballistic missile sub tech may have come from China via Pakistan
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Oct. 1, North Korea for the first time tested, successfully, its new Pukuksong-3 solid-fueled submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM). According to Japanese Defense Minister (more…)
‘Chinese intelligence storm’ makes increasing use of Americans
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Chinese Intelligence Former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency officer Ron Rockwell Hansen was sentenced last month to 10 years in prison for attempting to pass U.S. defense information (more…)
Defector: How to denuclearize the North; Why Trump doesn’t trust Seoul leader
Geostrategy-Direct [Editor’s note: The following was written by Jong Ho-Ri, a former senior North Korean economic official. His last assignment was in Dalian, China as head of the Korea (more…)
Report: Strike on Saudi oil sites came from Iran, not Yemen
Geostrategy-Direct The Sept. 14 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure originated from Iran and not Yemen as had been initially reported, officials say. “Cruise missile and drone attacks that (more…)
F-35s used in coalition strike that obliterated ‘Daesh infested island’
Geostrategy-Direct United States F-35s and F-15s dropped 80,000 pounds (36,000 kilograms) of bombs on an island in the Tigris River in Iraq that Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists had set (more…)