2017-01-15 According to a story published on the UK MoD website on January 11, 2107, Typhoons from RAF Coningsby will be based in Romania for three months in summer 2017. This is part of the upcoming UK contributions to NATO. UK forces have taken command of NATO’s Response Force’s Land Component…
2017-01-12 Our partner defenceWeb provided an interesting take on the Global Trends Report published each four years by the National Intelligence Council. By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 The world is becoming more dangerous and difficult to govern with rising tensions between and within countries, growing nationalism and isolationism and slower…
2016-12-29 By Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird The phone call between President-elect Trump and the President of Taiwan has sent shock waves to many in the diplomatic community. But it is about time to turn the page and include Taiwan in the shaping of a 21st century deterrent strategy for…
2016-12-29 By Robbin Laird As we end 2016 and look forward to 2017, it is difficult not to believe that we face a year of upheaval. Several dynamics in play at the same time and these dynamics will interact with one another to generate profound change in the world as…
2016-12-22 By Robert Newton The election has delivered an accomplished businessman, untainted by the favors and funding of classic politics, who is soon to enter office with a mandate for change. His declared commitment is to make “America Great Again” and, while our country has many dimensions, the US military…
2016-12-13 The Congress, pundits and others are focusing on Russia and cyber and the recent Presidential election. Before one rushes to ascribe real impact from this variable, it should be noted that Hillary Rodham Clinton lost in 2016 the same way she lost in 2008. To quote Newsweek from 2008:…
2016-12-06 By Danny Lam President Elect Trump’s 10 minute phone call with President Tsai of Taiwan was a watershed event that marked the great divide between the Kissinger-Nixon era of foreign policy toward China and the Trump era. At the beginning of the Kissinger-Nixon era, the US was faced with…
2016-12-03 By Harald Malmgren The election of Donald Trump as the next US President surprised most pollsters, political leaders in both major political parties, and the mainstream media. Broadly based political unrest seems to have materialized in the form of a populist revolt against Congress, the President, federal bureaucracy, lobbyists,…
