Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) story had an important update in the Oct. 16 issue of the Financial Times. Unnamed United States sources told (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Dossier: Artificial Intelligence The Pentagon’s software chief said he resigned because China has already won the artificial intelligence (AI) war. Nicolas Chaillan, the Defense Department’s first chief software (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China on Oct. 4 carried out its largest incursion inside Taiwan’s air defense zone to date, sending 58 warplanes, including 12 nuclear-capable bombers, the Taiwanese Defense Ministry said. (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct Team Biden is taking a conciliatory approach toward China, backing away from President Donald Trump’s hard-line policies, Joe Biden signaled in a key speech last week at the (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Sept. 15, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and American President Joe Biden announced the formation of a new defense (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct The U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold sailed within 12 miles of one of China’s militarily built-up “reefs” in the South China Sea in a direct challenge to a (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct In 2013, Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping said that “whoever controls data has the upper hand.” Xi’s regime is reinforcing its control over the economy and the lives (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher American credibility has suffered indeterminable but very likely long-term damage in the wake of the severely botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. After being convinced by (more…)
Geostrategy-Direct China achieved a strategic goal with the withdrawal of American troops following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan but now faces a “double-edged sword” with a potentially hostile Islamic (more…)