Geostrategy-Direct The downfall of the Islamic State (ISIS) caliphate, precipitated by the loss of Mosul in Iraq and the reported death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi comes as (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct While U.S. President Barack Obama was focused on a foreign policy legacy in the form of the Iran nuclear deal, the Islamic Republic had its eye on a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A well-entrenched North Korean army with large stockpiles of chemical weapons and an open-air detonation of a nuclear device by a desperate Kim Jong-Un are among the scenarios (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Kim Jong-Un is not afraid of flying like his late father Kim Jong-Il and he has cultivated an outgoing buoyant personal like his grandfather Kim Il-Sung, Communist North (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The announcement by four Sunni Arab states that they would sever diplomatic ties with Qatar comes as new strategic frameworks are taking shape in a region increasingly dominated (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct An Islamic doctrine calls for “seducing and terrorizing” – or brainwashing people into complying with Islam, an analyst born and raised in Egypt said. And, given the response (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Photos and television footage of Kim Jong-Un after North Korea’s recent missile test successes show a jubilant leader exchanging smiles and hugs with three men. One of them (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct From late 2010 until the end of 2012, China killed or jailed at least a dozen CIA sources and crippled the agency’s intelligence gathering efforts in China for (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct North Korea took another major step forward in its ballistic missile program with what was called a successful test of an intermediate-range missile that gauged Pyongyang’s capability of (more…)
