Trump Administration Nuclear Posture Review A Strategic Triumph
The Trump administration Nuclear Posture Review has finally given the long-overdue strategic guidance to deter Putin’s Russia in Europe, China in the South China Sea and Indian sub-continent, Iran in the Middle East, and North Korea. The return of the nuclear-tipped, Sea Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM) to the US strategic deterrent will send shock waves through the military high commands of America’s great power strategic competitors, and its rogue state opponents, not felt si
North Korean Tensions Increase Ahead of Trump Visit to China and South Korea
Three US aircraft carrier strike groups have now converged in the waters off the Korean peninsula including the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Nimitz and the USS Ronald Reagan. This comes after the US replenishment and increase in munitions being held in Guam, reported concerns that Secretary of State Tillerson’s efforts to find a diplomatic solution had hit an impasse, and reports that the US was in the process of increasing the readiness and alert status of its strategic,
North Korea Preparing For More Tests and Iran Under the Microscope
South Korean and US intelligence have recently reported that 30 Scud Short Range Ballistic Missiles (SRBMs) were moved from Hwangju, south of the capital Pyongyang, to a missile maintenance facility in the western coastal city of Nampo. It is believed that North Korea is preparing to fire multiple SRBMs on or about the opening of the Chinese Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress on October 18th. If true, this would be the fourth time in just over a year that North Korea h
ISIS Military-Political Leadership Increasingly Under Pressure as US Kills its Grand Mufti and Russi
ISIS Military-Political Leadership Increasingly Under Pressure as US Kills its Grand Mufti and Russia its Supreme Leader US-led coalition has announced that it killed ISIS self-proclaimed 'Grand Mufti' Turki al-Bin'ali in an airstrike on May 31st in Mayadin, Syria. If Russian accounts are true that it killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi in airstrikes, and if reports are accurate about the loss of other senior ISIS commanders and leaders, then it seems likely that ISIS mi
