While Seemingly Normal, New $345 Million Weapons Transfer to Taiwan is Anything But
While the US has sold weapons to Taiwan ever since 1979, the most recently-announced effort by a US president…
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Historic $886 Billion Pentagon Budget Passes House Amidst Largest Critical Recruiting Crisis
Almost completely along partisan lines, the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed the House of Reps. 219-210. It…
Report Says Taiwan Leadership “Most Important Factor” in Potential Conflict with China, but US Still Needed in Battle
Story at a glance… The RAND Corp. released a study on a conflict over Taiwan highlighting political leadership. Even…
DoD Report Finds Weapons to Ukraine Not Being Monitored 3 Months After GOP Assured They Were
ITALY, June 14th, 2023. In a report from the Pentagon’s Office of the Inspector General, “thousands of defense items”…
Analysis – Taiwan is at Pains to Determine Defense Policy and Independence
Story at a glance… Many of Taiwan’s key allies likely will not support the island in defending itself against…
US and South Korea Agree to Co-Design Nuclear Weapons Policy 5 Years After Panmunjom Declaration
Story at a glance… The US has announced it will make its South Korean nuclear deterrent more “visible” with…
What do the Discord Leaks Say About US-China Relations?
Story at a glance… Hundreds of classified Pentagon documents were recently leaked, including several related to America’s antagonism toward…
The Non-Aligned Countires Are Fed Up With Sanctions: NATO Isn’t
GENEVA, Switzerland. April 4th, 2023. The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution condemning the use of…
Arizona Senate Passes Law Forbidding Use of National Guard for Warfighting Without Congressional Declaration of War
PHOENIX, Arizona. March 21st, 2023. The Arizona state senate just passed a version of what is now becoming commonly…
Polish-Slovakian Warplanes to Enter Ukrainian War, F-16s Likely to Follow
VARESE, Italy. March 20th, 2023. On Friday, Slovakia’s prime minister, Eduard Heger, said the East European country would join…
Was This Week the Worst in American Foreign Policy This Century?
As the last full week of February draws to a close, it’s possible that looking at the big picture,…
Nikki Haley’s Record in Washington Promises More Embaressment for America
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has announced her candidacy for President today, becoming the first…
Number of Pentagon Bases in the Philippines Increased Under Outcry Against US Push to War
Under a renegotiation of an agreement known as the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), the US has been…
How The Marshall Islands’ Successfully Landed a $4 Billion Bribe from Uncle Sam
At the tail end of January, high-level negotiations saw the Marshall Islands sign a new bilateral treaty to cede…
US Increasingly In the Cold on Venezuela—Supporting a Government Several Governments Ago
The united opposition political parties in Venezuela, through the unicameral legislature called the National Assembly, decided to end the…
France Commits to 40% Increase in Military Spending, Nuclear Weapon Modernization
French President Emmanuel Macron announced recently his administration would increase France’s national defense spending 40% over the next 6…
$858 Billion Military Budget Passes House Promising Another Decade of Costly Arms Buildup
In a 350 to 80 vote, the House passed the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a mammoth military…
More in Congress Want Oversight of Ukraine Aid: Nigeria Says They’re Ending Up with Sahel Terrorists
Earlier in the year, calls to unify the disparate efforts to arm and fund Ukraine led to the Ukraine…
Pentagon Set for a Return to the Philippines’ Subic Bay Military Base in China Ramp-Up
On Thursday, Kyodo News reported that 30 years to the day of the US closing her largest overseas military…
US Will Never Accept a Nuclear-Armed North Korea, Even if it’s Requisite to Disarmament Talks
The People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea (DPRK) launched 23 ballistic missiles into the sea near the South Korean…