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Iran clearly boasts enormous capacity for mischief-making, it clearly relishes tweaking the Great Satan, and it has options. But let’s keep things in perspective. ....
Japanese container vessel arrives in Busan port, the Republic of Korea, on July 27, 2020 (Photo: Yonhap) Tokyo (VNA) – Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi and Thai Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prayut Chan-o-Cha highlighted the significance of maintaining maritime freedom during their phone talk on May 25. Both sides reaffirmed that Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) shares similarities with the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP). They expressed support of the respect for principles enshrined in the AOIP, including ASEAN’s central role and compliance with international law such as the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. On the Myanmar situation, the Japanese minister welcomed Thailand’s constructive ....
Can Iran Start World War III? This Yale Professor Says Oh Hell No. What would the legendary geopolitics scholar, Yale professor Nicholas Spykman, say about the sputtering confrontation between the United States and Iran? Here s What You Need to Remember: When pondering some strategic quandary you can get oriented by postulating what the greats in the field would say about it. What they said or wrote about roughly similar circumstances furnishes clues to what they might say about today’s strategic conundrums. This is the beginning of wisdom. The classics seldom furnish ready-made solutions. They almost always furnish a platform for launching into original thought. ....
The Real Reason for China’s Rising Military Threat Serious PLA modernization efforts began in 1991 when the trouncing of Iraq’s huge mechanized army in the Gulf War caused Beijing to realize its dated, World War II-style military was similarly vulnerable. Here’s What You Need to Remember: On January 12, 2019, the Defense Intelligence Agency released an annual report highlighting the radical reorganization of China’s People’s Liberation Army to become faster-responding, more flexible and more lethal than ever before. The PLA was formed in 1927 as a Communist revolutionary force to oppose the Nationalist Kuomintang government and (later) invading Japanese forces. Unlike Western militaries, the PLA remains loyal to the Chinese Communist Party, not a theoretically independent Chinese state. A cadre of political officers (commissars or ....