Geostrategy-Direct U.S. President Donald Trump said he intends to designate Mexico’s drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. “I will be designating the cartels,” Trump said in an interview with (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is reportedly employing both military and non-military tactics in an effort to influence next month’s presidential and legislative elections in Taiwan. Voters in (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China’s first domestically-built aircraft carrier was spotted sailing through the Taiwan Strait into the South China Sea. The Type-001A carrier was reportedly carrying seven Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The U.S. Air Force plans to develop precision-guided robotic weapons that would be capable of communicating with each other to choose potential targets. The project, called Golden Horde, (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct There are 21 American military bases within the range of Iran’s missiles and all are considered targets, an Iranian military official said last week. In July, a commander (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In mid-October the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) unveiled a new family of solid-fuel space launch vehicles. As the sole producer at present (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Japan’s Marines Rising tension between Japan and China intensifying has led the Japanese Marines to re-form a fighting force that has not been seen since World War (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Dec. 1, Iranian Navy commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi said that China, Russia and Iran would hold military exercises in the Indian Ocean from (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct North Korean state media reported that Kim Jong-Un expressed “great satisfaction” as he oversaw a “successful test” of a super-large multiple launch rocket system. North Korea fired two (more…)