Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 31, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Amid a major purge of top military leaders, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has scaled back military drills this year in what is seen as a campaign to garner greater political loyalty, according to a briefing given to U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. The loyalty “rectification” effort […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 29, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Combat zones where United States and Chinese military forces are regularly “eyeball to eyeball” include the Taiwan Strait, the East China Sea in defense of Japan, the South China Sea in defense of the Philippines, and increasingly in space, where the U.S. and China are […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 22, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Nine senior military leaders have been purged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) amid rumors about its direction, leadership and control of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The firings coincided with the Fourth Plenum of the CCP’s 20th Central Committee in which the party would address a five-year […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 22, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher America is in danger of losing the “second race to the Moon,” a prospect apparently rejected by President Donald Trump, so National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) acting Administrator, and Transportation Department Secretary Sean Duffy, on Oct. 20 injected new competition into the U.S. Moon […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 20, 2025 Nov 6, 2024 Hoover Institution at Stanford University billed senior fellows Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Andrew Roberts as among the most prestigious and popular historians in the world. They appeared together in a public forum for the first time last November. Among the topics they covered: The […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 15, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher During the Cold War there was the perceived “bomber gap” between the United States and the former Soviet Union, followed by a “missile gap.” Decades down the road in the current United States-China Cold War, the U.S. should be planning a response to a looming […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 14, 2025 In a Middle East peace signing ceremony and speeches to the Israeli parliament and Arab leaders, President Donald Trump on Oct. 13, 2025, called on all sides to “put the old feuds and bitter hatreds behind us” and embrace the “golden age of the Middle East.” “It took us […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 9, 2025 Both conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. were killed by the same type of bullet, a .30-06. In both cases, the bullet did not exit the body, reports say. A 2019 article in the Journal of Vascular Surgery details attempts by doctors to […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 8, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher What part of America’s “race” with China back to the Moon is most important? • That the U.S. demonstrate strong leadership of the democratic coalition of space faring nations by meeting its 2027 plans to return, beating China ‘s plan to get there before 2030? […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 3, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since the 1970s China has assisted Pakistan’s nuclear weapon and nuclear missile buildup that could soon include intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) — according to the former Biden Administration that sanctioned involved Pakistani companies in December 2024. A Pakistani ICBM capability makes little sense in relation […]
