Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China spent the week following the Aug. 2 U.S. departure from the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, criticizing Washington’s decision. A senior official pushed (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The United States is developing an artificial intelligence system that will allow analysts to simulate courses of action to assist war fighters in rapidly gauging the effects of (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs All attention is focused on the twists-and-turns of the very noisy U.S.-Iran dispute in the Persian Gulf, but all (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher During an Aug. 9 test, North Korea fired a new type of solid-fuel ballistic missile which was revealed for the first time by North Korean (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Aug. 8 and 9, satellite images were released on Chinese web pages showing weapons gathered for the Oct. 1 People’s Republic of China 70th (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct In order to be less economically dependent on Japan, South Korea’s president floated the idea of a partnership with North Korea. The move by left-leaning President Moon Jae-In (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned that Iran “won’t hesitate to safeguard its security” against “any extra-regional presence” in the Persian Gulf. “[The] Persian Gulf is a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The northern region of Iraq, including the Baghdad area, are far from the pictures of stability officials had hoped for in the wake of the defeat of Islamic (more…)