05/21/2017: Defense Secretary Jim Mattis met with Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist at the Pentagon to discuss their countries' alliance, May 18, 2017. 5/18/17 DoD News With the deployment of F-35s to the UK and then to Estonia and Bulgaria, the Trump Administration is focused clearly on NATO security and defense.…
2017-05-06 Editor's Note: Ed Timperlake published a story on April 29, 2017 in anticipation of the commemorative dinner to be held in New York City on May 5th, 2017 and that article is republished below. But we wanted to update the context within which the article was written as the dinner…
2017-05-10 There has been no more disruptive set of changes since the Thatcher revolution than the Brexit vote and the coming of Prime Minister May. With the Brexit vote, the British public as set in a revolution of its own. This vote led to the resignation of Prime Minister Cameron…
2017-04-23 By Kenneth Maxwell Brazil is continuing its long plunge into the murky world of profound political crises. Past corruption revelations, simmering judicial conflict between the federal judges and the political and private sector elites, and challenges to a system of government and the constitutional arrangements, which emerged when Brazil…
04/27/2017: Able Seaman Luke Menz of Australia’s Federation Guard, will read a WWI soldier’s letter during the Anzac Day Dawn Service ceremony at Villers-Bretonneux, in France. On Anzac Day, we remember not only the original Anzacs who died on 25 April 1915, but every one of our service men and women…
2017-04-13 By Robbin Laird During my current visit to Australia, I had a chance to discuss with one of Australia’s leading strategists, current strategic dynamics in the region. Given the priority upon North Korean developments, we focused largely upon this aspect of regional dynamics. After all, it is the most near…
2017-04-16 By Robbin Laird During my current visit to Australia, I had a chance to meet with Major General (Retired) Jim Molan. He is a frequent commentator in the press and on the media generally defense issues and given the significant dynamics of change in Asia and the coming of…
2017-04-08 By Danny Lam The top diplomats of both countries scripted the meeting between President Trump and Xi in order to avoid seemingly obvious problems that would obviously embarrass President Xi. They wanted to avoid previous incidents such as when Fanlungong disrupted a press conference with President Hu Jintao and…
