Russian exercise near Georgia redirected to Syria after Israeli strike

Russian exercise near Georgia redirected to Syria after Israeli strike

Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com A large-scale military drill was ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to intimidate a defiant Georgia for rejecting a Kremlin-proposed draft of a non-aggression pact that would recognize the runaway region of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Yet while the drill was going on in earnest, […]

Month-long U.S. exercise with strategic ally Georgia rattles Moscow

Month-long U.S. exercise with strategic ally Georgia rattles Moscow

Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Some 350 U.S. Marines from the USMC Black Sea Rotational Forces and several hundred Georgian Army troops from the country’s 23rd Battalion of the II Infantry Brigade took part in a month-long military exercise codenamed “Agile Spirit 2013″ in the former Soviet republic by the Black Sea […]

Putin bombshell: He planned invasion, war in Georgia 4 years ago

Putin bombshell: He planned invasion, war in Georgia 4 years ago

Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com On the fourth anniversary of the brief but brutal war with Georgia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted that the invasion of Georgia was long planned and he was personally involved in the approval and execution of the war. Putin’s comments […]

From Stalin to Putin: Moscow maintains uneasy balance of power in Northeast Asia

From Stalin to Putin: Moscow maintains uneasy balance of power in Northeast Asia

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — The resurgence of Vladimir Putin as president of Russia ushers in a new era of power politics and diplomacy in Northeast Asia with implications that may not be good news for either the United States or China. Campaigning against strong opposition from the educated, intellectual, often […]

Pakistan and Central Asia greet stark 2012 landscape minus U.S. strategic dominance

Pakistan and Central Asia greet stark 2012 landscape minus U.S. strategic dominance

Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory Copley, Global Information System By the start of 2012, the U.S. had seen a precipitous decline in its real strategic dominance of the Arabian Peninsula, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf, and in its ability to reach and influence Central Asia. It had taken less than two decades for the […]