FPI / March 28, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For decades it has been the fervent dream of Western Liberals that mankind keep wars on Earth, and that for the benefit of humanity, only pursue peaceful cooperation in space. From the 1990s onward, many of these liberals, especially in the Obama Administration, thought that cooperation […]
FPI / March 21, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s state-owned and government subsidized “private” space sector has taken great liberties in trying to copy the pioneering concepts of Elon Musk’s SpaceX corporation, in particular the SpaceX innovation of reusable medium and heavy space launch vehicles (SLVs). Now, one Chinese private space company is copying […]
FPI / March 14, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher It has been a week of momentous space news for the United States, with the March 2 landing of the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost unmanned Moon lander, the March 6 failure of the second Intuitive Machines unmanned moon lander, and the March 6 spectacular failure of […]
FPI / March 9, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Feb. 28 in Islamabad, Pakistan and China signed an agreement for China to begin assisting Pakistan with the selection and training of Pakistani astronauts to visit China’s manned space station. Treated with fanfare by the state media in both countries, the agreement, witnessed by Pakistan […]
FPI / March 2, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As the Trump Administration and new National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jared Issacman review and reassess the Artemis Moon Program and determine the best way to pursue President Donald Trump’s additional priority to put Americans on Mars, it is also important to keep in […]
FPI / February 21, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A December 2024 discovery of a new large asteroid heading our way — even though it has a 99 percent chance of missing the Earth — is nevertheless providing an excuse for China to assemble a “Planetary Defense Force” that could justify China’s building of a […]
FPI / February 14, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 oath to “…plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars” has not gone unnoticed in Russia — and very likely also in China. On Feb. 7 Russian dictator Vladimir Putin touted Russia’s longstanding Mars ambitions even though his space program […]
FPI / February 7, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Securing and defending American access to both the Moon and Mars are crucial to the future security of the United States and its democratic allies. Even though during his first term, Trump revived the U.S. manned Moon program in his Executive Order of Dec. 11, 2017, […]
FPI / January 31, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On the way toward fulfilling a campaign promise and beginning a shift of the global strategic balance of power back toward the United States — to include putting defensive U.S. weapons in space — on Jan. 27 President Donald J. Trump signed his executive order titled […]
FPI / January 24, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Jan. 20, 2025 a reelected President Donald J. Trump began his peaceful “revolution of common sense,” inaugural address featuring national optimism and purpose. But Trump also laid down a momentous challenge to Americans, allies and enemies alike with the potential to upend the global balance […]
