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…)
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…)
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…)
Geostrategy-Direct The explosion of a rocket at an Iranian space center on Aug 29, was amplified in a tweet from U.S. President Donald Trump. But an Iranian official said (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Taiwan’s F-16V The U.S. State Department on Aug. 21 made formal congressional notification of the sale of F-16 C/D Block 70 jets, also known as the F-16V, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iran will seek to keep the nuclear deal it signed with world powers on life support while waiting out the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election in (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The United States is developing an artificial intelligence system that will allow analysts to simulate courses of action to assist war fighters in rapidly gauging the effects of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China has patiently built its plans for global political-economic and military hegemony over three generations of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership. Now the twin crises (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct In the first defense white paper it has released in several years, China identifies the United States as its main adversary, warns that it is set to use (more…)