Geostrategy-Direct The Pentagon has asked for $304 million in the 2020 defense budget to develop space-based weapons. Department of Defense officials said they plan to test a neutral particle-beam in (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been slowly plotting Turkey’s ultimate departure from NATO since he first came to power as prime minister in 2002, an analyst said. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s military spending for 2019 will increase by 7.5 percent to about $177.61 billion, as revealed on March 3, 2019 by an official at Chinese (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In his Feb. 26, testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. John E. Hyten, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), in the section (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Israeli military officials said Iran is planning to turn an arsenal of basic rockets into precision-guided missiles using GPS “kits” the size of small roll-on suitcases. And, since (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted a former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist on charges of revealing classified information to the Iranian government. Monica Elfriede Witt, 39, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Internal security forces in North Korea are keeping a tight lid on military bases and even Pyongyang elites during the nation’s election period and less than a month (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct U.S.-backed forces in Syria have launched an offensive that is expected to drive Islamic State (ISIS) out of the last major swathe of territory under the terrorist organization’s (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A successful Israeli air strike against Iran’s military facilities inside Syria has resulted in China and Russia blaming each other for the humiliatingly embarrassing air defense failure. On (more…)
