Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Indonesia has started a major combat aircraft buildup with the Feb. 10 announcement that it will purchase 42 French Dassault Rafale 4+ generation fighters for (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A pre-Olympics summit on Feb. 4 between Chinese Communist Party (CCP) supremo Xi Jinping and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, which produced an unprecedented 5400-word joint (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A South Pacific underwater volcano eruption on Jan. 15 impacted about 80 percent of the 100K population of the island nation of Tonga, which is (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The United States now faces the prospect of having to respond to simultaneous wars or near simultaneous wars in Europe against Russia, against Iran, on (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Jan. 15, the United States Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) U.S.S. Nevada made a rare visit to the U.S. territory of Guam. The (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On one level, by massing over 100,000 troops and the armor to invade Ukraine, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has already scored two, possibly three victories (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s bold strategy of selling weapons to conflicting sides in major regional conflicts has been used to increase Beijing’s influence, usually at the expense of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Dec. 17, China Daily reported that the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co Ltd “floated,” or essentially launched the first of China’s “homegrown” 135,000-ton cruise ships. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since mid-October 2021, China has pressed a loud propaganda campaign to malign Western Democracy, and specifically to harshly criticize democracy in the United States. At (more…)
