Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On April 11, days before the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) launches its second Type 075 landing helicopter dock (LHD) amphibious assault ship, a fire (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct An unassuming mountain, which peaks at about 1,000 feet above the desert plateau 85 miles east of El Paso, Texas may be the U.S.’s answer to ending its (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The U.S. State Department on March 26 referred to the Wuhan coronavirus in an announcement hailing the anniversary of the Biological Weapons Convention. “Today we observe the 45th (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On March 19, the first images emerged on a Chinese Weibo web page account of the new 20-wheel transporter erector launcher (TEL) of the China (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct After intense lobbying from the Trump administration, Taiwan has shifted its strategy to long-range artillery under its new Overall Defense Concept (ODC), an analyst noted. The new strategy (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher By 2026, the Japan Ground Self Defense Force plans to develop and deploy indigenous Hyper Velocity Guided Projectiles (HVGP), or hypersonic missiles, to defend its (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A large number of states in the U.S. have contracts with two Chinese firms — Lenovo and Lexmark — which are required to report data and information they (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While the existence of a new U.S. Army program to develop an innovative artillery cannon with a greater than 1,000 mile (1,600 kilometer) range was (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iran’s space program, which has made several attempts to put a satellite into orbit, is nothing more than a front for improving its ballistic missile capabilities, U.S. Secretary (more…)