Geostrategy-Direct With most civilian and military infrastructure relying on computers to function, the U.S. and other Western nations would be devastated by an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) attack, a newly (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Japanese government is poised to buy properties on the tiny Mageshima island to install a U.S.-made missile defense system called the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense [THAAD] (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct In the event of a “high end” military conflict, increasingly capable enemies such as China and Russia will have the ability to disrupt the U.S.’s deployment of troops (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Russian Navy, which has begun patrols and operations that were once routine during the Cold War, is outfitting its warships and submarines in the western Atlantic with (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Russia last month said it conducted the fifth test of a hypersonic missile it believes can not be stopped by modern air defenses. Moscow boasts that the Zircon (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Just days before one of the world’s top quantum scientists, fell to his death, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer had linked Zhang Shoucheng’s Silicon Valley capital firm to (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct In indicting two Iranian hackers who allegedly created the SamSam ransomware, the United States for the first time placed bitcoin addresses on its sanctions list. The bitcoin addresses (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) was hacked during the 2018 midterm elections after hiring the same cyber firm that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) used to investigate (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Japan is said to be considering turning its helicopter carrier into an aircraft carrier in order to accommodate F-35 stealth fighters. Such a converson would bolster Japan’s defense (more…)
