Geostrategy-Direct The following is excerpted from a July 3 analysis by Yossef Bodansky, senior editor of GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs. It seemed everybody was ready to placate Kim Jong-Un (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The only free social media account not yet being censored by the Chinese government is the U.S. Embassy’s Twitter-like Weibo account registered in Beijing. The service has a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct A great confluence of natural and man-made trends seems likely to set the pattern for imminent conflict escalation in the historical “Greater Syria,” Yossef Bodansky, wrote in an (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a “one-sided” arms control gambit during his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Helsinki that relies heavily on the Kremlin pursuing a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iran is aggressively developing cyberwarfare capabilities that include targeting America’s vulnerable power grid, analysts say. The Islamic Republic’s army of hackers are gearing up for attacks on vital (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The United States must confront China’s ongoing cyber theft of American technology before it erodes “America’s long-term competitive economic advantage,” according to a report from the Office of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Within days, Japan’s defense minister is reportedly to embark on an important trip to India, to seal a landmark agreement with New Delhi to hold a first-ever military (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct On July 26, Russia announced that it is completing its delivery of the S-400 air defense system to China. But the story is far more agonizing to China (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iran is getting a taste of the maximum pressure strategy used by U.S. President Donald Trump that brought North Korea to the negotiating table. As the U.S. is (more…)