Did Team Biden’s equivocation on Senkakus signal weakness?
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Deterrence is based on perception and if an aggressor perceives its target to be indecisive or part of a weak coalition, there may an increasing (more…)
Critics fear purge of conservatives from military under Team Biden
Geostrategy-Direct A Biden administration anti-domestic extremism campaign aimed squarely at “the enemy within” could be used to purge conservatives of all stripes from the ranks of the U.S. military, (more…)
Report: Mossad’s high-tech hit against Iran scientist included bomb to destroy evidence
Geostrategy-Direct Iran’s top nuclear scientist was killed by a one-ton automated gun that was smuggled into Iran piece-by-piece by Israel’s Mossad spy agency, a report said. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was (more…)
Iran dissidents risk lives with public appeal: Retain ‘maximum’ pressure on regime
Geostrategy-Direct Leading Iranian dissidents are calling on the Biden administration to continue former President Donald Trump’s strategy of “maximum pressure” on the Iranian regime. “[T]he Islamic Republic Theocracy is (more…)
Iran, China and Russia to hold second trilateral naval exercise
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Iran, China and Russia plan to hold a second trilateral naval exercise in the “Indian Ocean” later in February 2021. Iran’s ambassador to Moscow announced (more…)
Not-so-secret NSA reports on software for strategic weapons, quantum challenge
Geostrategy-Direct In January, the National Security Agency (NSA) published an annual report on its 2020 cybersecurity activities. In the past, the information released in this report would have been (more…)
Exiting DNI Ratcliffe: Anti-Trump intel chiefs downplayed China’s 2020 election interference
Geostrategy-Direct Trump administration Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe suggested U.S. intelligence agencies played partisan political roles by downplaying China‘s role in interfering in the disputed Nov. 3 presidential (more…)
Bioweapon? Inside the high-stakes U.S. intel fight on the Wuhan virus
Geostrategy-Direct A U.S. task force composed of scientists and medical experts to study the origin of the Wuhan coronavirus is deadlocked over how to report their conclusions, a report (more…)
Leaked database reveals China’s mining of global surveillance data
Geostrategy-Direct The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used a “data scraping” company to mine the personal information of millions of people, according to a report by the U.S. State Department-led (more…)