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Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

The framework seems sound; now let’s see what substance the Pentagon and Biden administration hang on it. Last month the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

This week I returned to the mothership for the first time in a dozen years, to take part in a conference at Vanderbilt University...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

Of late there’s been a lively discussion in the halls of U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I. (where I serve as the  J....

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

Russia’s year-long onslaught against Ukraine proves, yet again, that the fundamental nature of war never changes even though no war is precisely like another....

Smart Bombs

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Despite the existence of the DF-21D, which the PLA has repeatedly test-fired and reported on in its state-backed newspapers, U.S. Navy leaders have been...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Though just six seconds long, the clip provided a view of the missile streaking towards the helicopter, which is seen losing altitude – and...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

As strange as it sounds, the U.S. military acquired Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets following the dissolution of the USSR. Thanks to the tiny former Soviet...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

It would be another victory of sorts for the Ukrainians, especially as the BMP-3 is among the most modern armored vehicles in service on...

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

“Mr. Biden essentially embraced the progressive’s modern monetary theory, which admittedly became universal amid the pandemic, positing that the U.S. government could print and...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

America is Going to Default This Summer – Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wants to have a confab with President Joe Biden...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

French President Emmanuel Macron raised France’s retirement age from 62 to 64 – without a legislative vote. “The move sparked widespread outrage in the French...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

By bailing out all depositors—even those who had more than the already insured $250,000 in the banks in question—the federal government has just nationalized...

The Embassy

The Embassy

The Biden administration, which claims to be “pivoting” to the Indo-Pacific, left a diplomatic and security vacuum in the Middle East. China is now...

The Embassy

As Putin walks with the men, he looks to be experiencing discomfort, walking more slowly than he did only days before when he made...

The Embassy

China creates problems for allies in the East and the West. We ought to work together, not just to push back on China’s malicious...

The Embassy

What happens when the world’s two most dangerous humans meet?  We are about to find out. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are going to...

Coronavirus

Coronavirus Chaos

China’s dramatic shift from draconian restrictions to relaxed COVID-19 rules is likely to cause more economic disruptions than benefits. The poorly performing economy will...

Coronavirus Chaos

This was the year the word “tripledemic” entered the lexicon. That’s the term for the three different types of illnesses, COVID-19, flu, and RSV,...

Coronavirus Chaos

Perhaps as many as 90% of China’s 1.41 billion people will come down with COVID-19, said Feng Zijian, former deputy chief of China’s Center...

Coronavirus Chaos

A new virus has emerged in China and infected around 35 people, sparking concern that a new pandemic could be on the way. Scientists...

Politics News

Politics

U.S. Judge Beryl Howell, who retired last week, wrote in a filing that prosecutors have made a “prima facie showing that the former president...

Politics

Kari Lake and her supporters have also pushed a wild conspiracy theory that Hobbs, the governor, and various politicians and judges in Arizona have...

Politics

We are supposed to believe that Boebert’s Christian beliefs and religious statements are somehow harmful to the country. This is unfortunate. Boebert is not...

Politics

Joe Biden would be 86 years old when he would finish a second term, almost a decade older than Ronald Reagan was when he...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

In recent days it has been reported in the Chosun Ilbo (one of South Korea’s most widely read daily newspapers) that if North Korea...

Hermit Kingdom

North Korea’s Kim Yo-jong is at it again, making extreme threats. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Indo-Pacific commander, Adm. John Aquilino, reportedly said that...

Hermit Kingdom

On Thursday morning, North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the Yellow Sea just days after Kim Yo Jong, sister of leader Kim...

Hermit Kingdom

On March 6, Seoul announced a new plan for resolving the lingering dispute with Japan over compensation for South Koreans forced to labor for...