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…)
Geostrategy-Direct The United States confirmed it has halted a joint drone surveillance program with NATO ally Turkey that had been carried out in secret since 2007. U.S. officials, who (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China’s dominant share of the global drone market presents a major security concern for Japan, which has pledged to expand support for its domestic drone industry. According to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China is now second only to the United States in arms production, a think tank said on Monday. Based on the latest available data, from 2015 to 2017, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China’s military is reportedly considering producing advanced drone weapons systems that could make autonomous decisions — without human intervention — in conducting strikes. Russia’s military has already deployed (more…)