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China’s aggressive leadership is creating security challenges on the Korean peninsula and for countries around the world. Two times this week President Biden had to order the US Air Force to shoot down high-altitude, Chinese surveillance balloons flying over the United States. The latest incident occurred over Alaska on Friday. In East Asia, Beijing has […]
As Arctic-like temperatures descend on the United States this week, we are reminded that there is a great frozen north that can impact events outside the immediate region. The Arctic today plays an increasingly important geopolitical role with the growing potential of a year-round new Northern Passage for commercial shipping, technologically available energy rich resources, […]
Turkey, Belarus, and Georgia have something in common this fall. All three are reevaluating their relationship with Russia. Belarus fears the consequences of closer military involvement with Moscow in its war in Ukraine. Georgia, seeing how badly the war is going to Putin, has presented the idea of holding a national referendum on opening […]
Several hundred intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) silos are buried at three sites in the sands of China’s western deserts near Yumen, Hami, and Ordos. Beijing touts additional road mobile intercontinental missile launchers it says are capable of carrying advanced weapons of great destructive power and able to reach the continental US. Recently Beijing launched its […]
Thanks to Vladimir Putin, NATO has experienced a revival, as nations realize that the powerful deterrent it provides is vitally necessary. For several decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union, many questioned the relevance of NATO. Far too many members, especially Germany, failed to live up to their obligation to maintain an adequate defense […]
Aggressive and dangerous threats from Russia, China, and to a lesser extent North Korea and Iran threaten America’s defense space infrastructure. More than any other nation, the U.S. is dependent on orbital assets for defense. Civilian life is tied in, as well. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) notes that “Space-based capabilities impact many day-to-day aspects […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) has transmitted the classified 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS) to Congress. According to DoD, document sets out how the it will contribute to “advancing and safeguarding vital U.S. national interests – protecting the American people, expanding America’s prosperity, and realizing and defending our democratic values. “The NDS is the capstone […]
After the Afghanistan debacle and the failure to timely move to dissuade Russia from invading Ukraine, President Biden may be on the verge of even more dangerous move. According to the Arms Control Association, “President Joe Biden entered office with two objectives for nuclear weapons policy: declaring that “the sole purpose of our nuclear arsenal […]
It is time that the Democratic Party leadership, particularly Barrack Obama and Joe Biden, explain their foreign policy goals and methods. In April 2014, the military newspaper Stars and Stripes reported a story almost totally ignored by the media: all American tanks had been withdrawn from Europe under orders from President Obama. According to the […]
Germany is Europe’s major financial power. Does it side with its continental partners, or with their adversaries? The issue has taken on new urgency as Berlin looks to Moscow for its energy supplies. The German economy is the largest in the European Union, and the fourth largest in the world. It has the resources and […]