Moscow: Unmanned tank could counter ‘existing NATO counterparts’

Moscow: Unmanned tank could counter ‘existing NATO counterparts’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Future land and amphibious armored warfare will likely be transformed by an emerging new operational platform: the unmanned tank. Russia is racing to have one of the first such weapons. The official RIA Novosti news agency reported Sept. 7 that Russian defense authorities had decided to test the […]

Meanwhile in Venezuela, a Russian naval flotilla stages an anti-U.S. show of force

Meanwhile in Venezuela, a Russian naval flotilla stages an anti-U.S. show of force

Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued another challenge to U.S. global military influence by dispatching a large naval flotilla to the vehemently anti-American regime in Venezuela. Thus far, a toughened stance toward the United States seems to be the main result of President Barack Obama’s U.S.-Russia “reset button” […]

Report of planned U.S. base in India excites locals, rattles Beijing

Report of planned U.S. base in India excites locals, rattles Beijing

Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Indian media and military forums are abuzz about various reports that the Pentagon is considering building a military base in India, with the ostensible purpose of checking China’s growing military threat in the region. The Calcutta-based newspaper The Telegraph reported on Aug. 21 that a U.S. Air Force […]

Indian sub tragedy blamed on mishandling of Russian-made missiles

Indian sub tragedy blamed on mishandling of Russian-made missiles

Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Last week’s disastrous submarine explosion in India which killed 18 Indian sailors was caused by Russian-made Klub missiles inside the vessel, according to the Indian newspaper Mumbai Mirror, citing sources from the Indian Navy. The explosion and sinking of the Russian-made diesel-electric submarine INS Sindhurakshat occurred right after […]

India in race with China to launch first indigenous aircraft carrier

India in race with China to launch first indigenous aircraft carrier

Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com An Indian Navy source has confirmed that the Indian government will launch its first ever indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier on Aug. 12. If so, India would be the fifth country able to build its own carrier, after the United States, Russia, Great Britain and France. The […]

Egypt’s counter-insurgency offensive, begun under Morsi, intensifies

Egypt’s counter-insurgency offensive, begun under Morsi, intensifies

Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com WASHINGTON — Egypt assigned an Army general in May to head the counter-insurgency mission in the Sinai Peninsula, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy identified Gen. Ahmed Wasfi as the chief of the CI campaign in Sinai in the spring of 2013. Wasfi has […]

Reacting to Hayden interview, Huawei tells U.S. to ‘just shut up’

Reacting to Hayden interview, Huawei tells U.S. to ‘just shut up’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei issued a statement hours after a former U.S. senior intelligence official confirmed that Huawei had indeed spied for the Chinese government. Gen. Michael Hayden [Ret], former director of the CIA and NSA, a highly respected professional intelligence official in the West, told the […]

Fall of ‘Islamic model’ in Egypt has Erdogan fearing coup in Turkey

Fall of ‘Islamic model’ in Egypt has Erdogan fearing coup in Turkey

Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com ANKARA — Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, alarmed by the military coup in Egypt, was said to fear a similar scenario in Turkey. Diplomatic sources said Erdogan was the only NATO or Middle East leader to have openly sided with the Muslim Brotherhood against Egypt’s military. They said the […]

Sleeper agents planted during Cold War are sentenced in Germany

Sleeper agents planted during Cold War are sentenced in Germany

Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com In a case reminiscent of the Cold War era, a German court near Stuttgart on July 2 sentenced two Russian agents, planted in West Germany during the 1980s and active until their arrest in October 2011. Andreas Anschlag, 54, and his wife Heidrun, 48, were planted by the […]

Russia’s brisk arms trade business seen driving its foreign policy

Russia’s brisk arms trade business seen driving its foreign policy

Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s stubborn insistence on siding with the pariah regime of Bashar Assad in Syria highlights an important economic factor: Russia’s heavy dependence on its arms export industry at the expense of Moscow’s international status and responsibility. Some experts believe that Russia’s reliance on international arms trade has become […]