July 5, 2018

The Sino-Mexican Influence in America's Backyard

After receiving approval this past week, the Bank of China will become the second Chinese-owned financial institution with a presence in Mexico after the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) began operations in June 2016. The Bank of China ...

July 5, 2018

Not all trade is equal

In the back-and-forth dispute over trade statistics between the Trump administration and representatives of Canada's governing Liberal Party, an important shift in rhetoric was attempted by Canadian foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland: ...

July 5, 2018

Denmark finally realizes it has a non-Western immigration problem

Earlier this week, the New York Times published a piece outlining some of the new laws the Danish parliament has passed since the government, led by the center-right Venestre party under Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, introduced a package of im...

July 3, 2018

China Is Still Involved in Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program

During the 1980s and 1990s, China created the Iranian nuclear weapons program through the sales of complete nuclear and missile facilities, along with dual-use and unfinished technologies.  Yet, in 1997, Bill Clinton told the U.S. Congress ...

July 3, 2018

Is this obscure Chinese company set to wreck America from the north?

While the United States and Australia, and the U.K. to a lesser extent, have taken strong action against Huawei – the Chinese networking, telecommunications equipment, and services company that has become the largest telecom equipment manufactu...

July 1, 2018

Mexican Cartels Fill the Void in a Post-FARC Colombia

There is increasing evidence that Mexican organized crime, in particular its drug cartels, has moved into the void left behind in the post-FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) underworld in Colombia.  This development has critical ...

July 1, 2018

Are trade deficits good? Ask 60 years' worth of data

Peter Navarro's views, along with those of Wilbur Ross, that reducing the U.S. trade deficit would increase economic growth have created a firestorm that continues to burn.  They have been attacked from all portions of the political spectrum...

June 29, 2018

Winters in San Antonio ain't getting warmer

Back in December of last year, San Antonio held a get-together to talk about climate change. Here is how the San Antonio Express-News reported on the event: Attendees of San Antonio's first official event on responding to climate change came...

June 26, 2018

Cooler Heads Need to Prevail on Texas Climate Predictions

For all its positive attributes, the great state of Texas has one major failing: the inability of its mainstream media to rationally discuss climate change.  Unfortunately, Texas media are being used to implement the shock doctrine approach...

June 26, 2018

EU admits: Jihadist terrorism has cost economy hundreds of billions

In a new report prepared by the RAND Corporation for the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), the European Union (E.U.) acknowledges what many national security experts have been arguing for years: This Cost of Non-Europe report argue...

June 24, 2018

Combined military expenditures of China and Russia now exceed the United States

Two years ago on this site, we raised the alarm that if drastic measures were not taken in short order, the combined military expenditures of China and Russia would shortly overtake that of the United States. That day has arrived. As we noted i...

April 13, 2016

China and Russia combined now at military spending parity with US

Each year about this time, as the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) releases its global military spending database, we hear the same refrain: the United States spends more than the next [insert your favorite large number here] ...

April 6, 2016

Time to Get Serious About the F-35 Program

When the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition was awarded to Lockheed Martin in late 2001, there was much excitement. The time was right to begin with a next generation fighter program to replace aging fleets in the U.S. and among its allies abroad...

March 21, 2016

Two Nations Suffering the Loss of U.S. Nuclear Deterrence

When Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea and other portions of eastern Ukraine in 2014, a suite of dominos began to fall in the West's nuclear deterrence strategy that had – until then – worked well for many decades. Whatever your feelin...

March 20, 2016

Japan's security concerns and the need for a revitalized U.S. nuclear deterrent

Historically the poster child for non-proliferation and disarmament, Japan has recently begun to more openly contemplate development of nuclear weapons.  While the populace may overwhelmingly oppose nuclear armament, many government and policy l...

March 10, 2016

Revitalizing U.S. Nuclear Deterrence Strategy

The necessity to ramp up long overdue modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, combined with an escalating disarmament policy shift under the Obama administration, has once again brought the discussion of deterrence to the forefront of military str...