Geostrategy-Direct In what is reportedly the first video footage of him in five years, a graying Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is seen urging his followers to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Though stymied economically by ongoing U.S. sanctions, Iran is moving forward with its long-term plans to increase its influence in the region, particularly Syria. “The Islamic Republic of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to quickly approve the foreign sale of the Sukhoi Su-57E, the export version of Russia’s most modern 5th generation (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan calls for large-scale resettlement of Palestinian Arabs in Jordan, the ceding of Jordanian territory to Israel, and the formation of a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who declared himself “caliph” in founding Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014, is likely hiding out in Syria’s vast Badia desert, according to an Iraqi historian (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The level of cooperation and coordination between Iran and Al Qaida has been in the last 20 years one of the most misunderstood and underreported aspects of the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Kremlin plans to deploy what may be the deadliest nuclear weapon ever aboard submarines by 2020, Russian state media reported, citing a Russian defense industry source. “Nuclear-tipped (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher With the imminent formal demise of the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty due to Russian cheating, the U.S. is moving to rebuild its (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Russia for the first time has deployed conventionally armed missiles that are capable of reaching deep inside the United States, the commander of the U.S. military’s Northern Command (more…)
