Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct There is no more volatile and sensitive an issue for Beijing than the U.S. military presence in the Taiwan Strait which China considers its own dominance area. Yet the U.S. Navy for the first time since 1969 has re-established its routine presence in the 100-mile wide strategic choke-point, much to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 29, 2018 Two U.S. Navy warships transited the Taiwan Strait on Nov. 28, on the eve of a meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stockdale, accompanied by the Henry J. Kaiser-class underway replenishment […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct The Trump administration for the first time is demanding that China remove all anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles that are deployed on disputed islands in the South China Sea. The demand was made public in a fact sheet distributed by the U.S. State Department earlier this month. The fact sheet outlined […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 19, 2018 A Mexican drug cartel blames the migrant caravan for slowing its smuggling operations amid the U.S. military deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border, sources said. Todd Bensman, of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), reported on Nov. 19 that the U.S. military presence at the border is curbing drug trafficking […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2018 The Afghan Taliban recently held talks with a U.S. envoy as the Trump administration pushes for an end to a 17-year conflict the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff admitted there is “no military” solution for. U.S. peace envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad met with high-ranking members […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 15, 2018 Speaking to troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on Nov. 14 said that “in the Army, we don’t care if you’re male or female, we don’t care where you go to church or if you go to church. “We just care when there’s trouble […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON ― We hear so much about North Korea’s secret bases that it’s sometimes easy to forget the ruckus over U.S. bases in the region. They may not be secret, but they can be controversial. Take, for instance, the huge U.S. air and marine bases on Okinawa. People over […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Korean history over the past century has been so full of surprises that it’s risky to make serious predictions. The North Korean invasion of the South in June 1950, ordered by Kim dynasty founder Kim Il-Sung, was the worst, most tragic surprise of all. So traumatic was that blitzkrieg […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 5, 2018 Republican congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw fired back at Saturday Night Live after one the show’s cast members mocked the Texas candidate’s war wound. On the Nov. 3 broadcast of SNL, Pete Davidson appeared on the “Weekend Update” segment to give his “first impressions” of some candidates ahead of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 1, 2018 President Donald Trump on Oct. 31 said he could deploy up to 15,000 troops to the U.S.’s southern border. “We have to have a wall of people,” the president told ABC News. “We’ll do up to anywhere between ten and 15,000 military personnel, on top of border patrol, ICE, […]
