Network: Wedgetail Astrostrategy Cyberstrategy Geofinance Geopolitics Geostrategy Global Energy

News & Map

9,616 items on Geostrategy — showing 7841–7880 · 5,056 without coordinates · Across the network · RSS

US ‘not prepared’ to respond to nuclear attacks in space, report says

A recent war-gaming report found that the U.S. has no tested response to a nuclear detonation in space.

United States · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Would NATO Membership for Ukraine Undermine Article 5 Itself?

In 2025, Jennifer Kavanaugh and Christopher McCallion wrote, “Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Is NATO’s Least Poor Option,”...

Ukraine · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Israel’s SPICE 1000 bombs can soon drop from F-35 fighters

The Israeli air force can look forward to yet another bomb type for its F-35 fleet.

Israel · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Pentagon must prepare for battles around the moon: Joint Chiefs chair

Days after orbital weapons were revealed, Gen. Dan Caine ups the scope of the military’s desired reach.

United States · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
US military must adapt as formations will be ‘hunted’ by autonomous systems, Caine says

Technology, such as AI and autonomous systems, is changing the character of war, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan...

United States · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Navy Awards $200M for Blackbeard Hypersonic Missile for Carrier Fighters

The U.S. Navy awarded $200 million this week for the production of low-cost Blackbeard hypersonic missiles that will be ...

United States · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
“A Recurring Pattern”: Civilians Paying the Price in Mali’s Drone Campaign

Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. WARNING: This report...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Houthis’ Advance to Bab al-Mandab: Has Yemen’s War Returned?

The Houthis’ Advance to Bab al-Mandab: Has Yemen’s War Returned? eschelhaas Wed, 09/16/2026 - 17:32 Latest Updates Afric...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Siddhant Kishore on BRICS and the New Geopolitics of Asia

Siddhant Kishore joins host Tushar Shetty to examine the BRICS summit in New Delhi and the strategic realignment underwa...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Space Forces-Japan deepens joint warfighting skills with the NSSI

Instructors from the National Security Space Institute visited Yokota Air Base to conduct tailored, bilateral education ...

Yokota Air Base, Japan · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Underwater Autonomy in the China-US Naval Race

Insights from Verineia Codrean.

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Germany, US to expand shared production of Patriot interceptors, strike missiles

German and U.S. defense leaders have signed an agreement positioning Germany as an additional production hub for scarce ...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
'A masterclass in the ethics of espionage'

Ben Macintyre’s “Redwood” is the surprising true account of how a KGB major’s erectile dysfunction may have altered geop...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Drone Downed in Lithuania Was Russian and Likely Aimed at Ukraine, President Nausėda Says

A NATO fighter jet intercepted the unmanned aircraft, identified as a Gerbera, over central Lithuania early Tuesday.

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
South Korea Embraces the Silk Road Spirit With Central Asian Leaders

In the first Central Asia-South Korea leaders summit, energy and critical minerals were top of the agenda.

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Pentagon Inspector General Report on Operation Epic Fury

The following is the Defense Department Office of Inspector General report to Congress on Operation Epic Fury, published...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Syzran and Saratov Oil Refineries Halt Operations After Drone Attacks, Sources Say

Industry sources said the Syzran plant paused operations on Tuesday, while the Saratov refinery halted work last Friday.

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
What Do Taiwan’s People Think About Its Annual Military Exercises?

Taiwan’s Han Kuang exercises are winning public approval, despite the growing impact on civilians. Understanding is anot...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Challenges of Finding Political Treasure in Chinese Overseas Ports

When it comes to Chinese overseas port projects, negative economic externalities may coexist with positive ones.

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Belousov Awards Warship Captain for ‘Skillfully and Decisively’ Firing Flares at Danish Helicopter

The captain received Russia’s medal “For Courage” after he “prevented a provocation by a Danish helicopter,” the Defense...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
World News in Brief: Shipping alert from IMO, democracy vanishing in Nicaragua, alert over political ‘denialism’

Amid a rising number of attacks on shipping in key waterways in the Middle East linked to the US-Iran war, the head of U...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Few took the Houthis seriously. A coalition is now needed to stop them.

The Gulf, Israel and the US should push the Iran-backed group away from the vital Red Sea shipping lane.

Red Sea · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
The New Delhi BRICS Summit Sends Powerful Messages to America

However determined Western governments may be to turn Russia and Iran into pariah states, much of the Global South rejec...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Fighting intensifies between Saudi forces and Iran-backed Houthis

Riyadh said it intercepted a Houthi drone near the holy Muslim city of Mecca; the Yemeni group denied the charge and sai...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Russian General Who Oversaw Capture of Ukraine’s Kostiantynivka Dies

Major General Anton Grunis had personally briefed Putin on the capture of the heavily fortified city earlier this summer...

Kostiantynivka, Ukraine · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Integrating the Deadly Seven: Evolved Combined Arms for the Drone Age

Since World War II, the US Army has built its combined arms approach around the complementary employment of armor, infan...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Bells are Ringing Again, and This Time Sweden is Inside the Alliance

On August 25, CIA Director John Ratcliffe landed in Moscow. He met Russian officials, warned them against attacking NATO...

Stockholm, Sweden · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Armor’s Next Transformation

Interwar periods are inherently challenging for militaries, who must balance lessons from previous wars with emergent te...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
Strategic Stability and the Rebuilding of Xi’s Military

For all the warnings about an increasingly capable Chinese military, this may very well be an awkward moment for Beijing...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
North Korea’s attack drill, Wonsan Kalma slowdown and Google’s blurry maps

This week, NK News Senior Analytical Correspondent Colin Zwirko joins the podcast to break down North Korea’s latest mis...

Wonsan, North Korea · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
North Korea sends military delegation to China’s major security conference

North Korea has dispatched a defense ministry delegation to Beijing for China’s flagship annual security conference for ...

Beijing, China · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
North Korea bars Western, Chinese visitors from Pyongyang trade fair: sources

North Korea has barred Western and Chinese visitors from attending an upcoming trade fair in Pyongyang over epidemiologi...

Pyongyang, North Korea · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
What NATO leaves behind as it pulls back from Kosovo

This summer, tensions in Kosovo have spiked even as a NATO-led peacekeeping mission began to withdraw from the country.I...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
North Korea ordered to pay $32 million for destroying inter-Korean office

A Seoul court on Wednesday ordered North Korea to pay the South Korean government roughly $32.6 million (44.6 billion wo...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
How Australia can execute its denial strategy long before SSNs arrive

Australia’s declared strategy of denial needs to become effective long before the powerful new nuclear submarines become...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
As US stockpiles dwindle, Trump rushes weapons to Israel, Saudi

As government watchdogs warn about dwindling U.S. stockpiles of major weapons systems, the Trump administration is movin...

No location · Sep 16, 2026 · Wedgetail
A Russian Oligarch Speaks Out, But Not Against Russia's War

Russian industrial magnate Melnichenko, writing in the Economist, shares an incoherent worldview and shows how Russia’s ...

No location · Sep 15, 2026 · Wedgetail
How a MAGA influencer with ties to Russia became Trump’s Arctic adviser

As Thomas Dans holds forth in the U.S. and abroad, it’s not always clear where the administration’s agenda ends and his ...

No location · Sep 15, 2026 · Wedgetail
3 New Shipyards Tapped to Build LCU-1700s in $280M Deal

Three new shipyards have been tapped to construct seven Landing Craft Utility landing vessels as part of an overall $280...

No location · Sep 15, 2026 · Wedgetail
Remarks by CSO Gen. Douglas Schiess at the Air and Space Forces Association’s 2026 Air, Space and Cyber Conference

In a keynote address at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference, CSO Schiess outlined cor...

No location · Sep 15, 2026 · Wedgetail

5,056 of 9,616 items have no coordinates and so are listed but not mapped.