Iran’s grand strategy comes into focus in the post-Obama era
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…)
If North Korea implodes: Report explores WMD scenarios should regime collapse
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…)
Paranoid in Pyongyang: NIS reports wary Kim focused on ‘decapitation’ ops
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…)
Gulf states’ split with Qatar signals emergence of Iran’s regional dominance
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…)
Author: Islamic terror tactics are brainwashing West into accepting ‘the New Normal’
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…)
The wrong stuff: Western intelligence tracks Kim Jong-Un’s rocket stars
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…)
Tragic U.S. intelligence defeat tied to China’s cyber attack on OMB personnel records
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…)
North Korea’s warhead re-entry test puts U.S. ‘forward-based assets’ at risk
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…)
Iran-North Korea working jointly on missiles U.S. abandoned under arms control treaty
Geostrategy-Direct Iran and North Korea continue to work in concert to develop missiles that the United States is constrained from working on under an international arms control treaty. Missile (more…)