Geopoliticus March 29, 2018 Comrade Kim Goes to China, but What Does That Really Mean? At a time when “ordinary” doesn’t seem to exist in Korean affairs, Kim Jong-un’s recent visit to China affirmed... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 2, 2018 Compete and Cooperate to Make U.S. National Security Strategies Great Again Colleagues at the U.S. Army War College recently published a piece making important arguments that largely echo the competitive... Read more »
Geopoliticus February 22, 2018 History Begins (Again) for the Pentagon Thanks to a near-myopic obsession with eradicating transnational Islamic terrorism, costly invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, and... Read more »
Geopoliticus January 18, 2018 Déjà Vu All Over Again: China Re-Opens Flight Route M503 On January 4, the People’s Republic of China announced the opening of four new flight routes over the Taiwan... Read more »
Geopoliticus December 11, 2017 What’s in a Name?: Strategy Behind the “Indo-Pacific” Throughout his tour of Asia in November 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly referred to the region through which... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 28, 2017 Spared a War: Abe’s Victory and Japan’s Rearmament I made my genuine Thanksgiving on October 27. The occasion was Mr. Abe’s crushing victory in the Japanese election;... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 13, 2017 Conflict Escalation: China and India’s Territorial Dispute in the Himalayas During the summer of 2017, an unusually volatile territorial spat between China and India erupted in the Himalayan Mountains.... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 13, 2017 Why We Must Recognize North Korea The reason that negotiations over North Korea have never achieved anything is simple. Their avowed goal is impossible to... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 13, 2017 Taiwan Loses Another Ally In another blow to Taiwan’s ever-shrinking list of diplomatic allies comes the news that Panama has severed ties with... Read more »
Geopoliticus April 27, 2017 China’s Nuclear Interest in the South China Sea Economic and sovereignty interests are commonly cited as the reasons for China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea. ... Read more »