by Richard Schulman Iran has just committed an act of war against Saudi Arabia and the energy lifeline that keeps the world economy running. The airborne assault was launched either by Iranian forces directly or by proxies it controls who would not have taken such an action without approval at the highest levels of the […]
Strategic caution required in Khashoggi affair
“Politics ain’t beanbag,” as the saying goes, and that goes especially for Mideast politics, where terrorism and murder of opponents are the coin of the realm. Saudi citizen, journalist, Muslim Brotherhood member and its leading propagandist Jamal (“James”) Khashoggi knew this well. He reportedly gave his cell phone to his fiancee waiting outside, set his […]
China is gaining on the United States. What is the US doing about it?
This very concerned strategic assessment — “China is gaining on the United States. What are the US doing about it?” — was written by an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) analyst after the Trump administration’s first National Defense Strategy was released by Secretary of Defense Mattis — but before the sequester was set aside and increased […]
