CounterStrikeMedia
  • Home
    • American Foreign Policy
    • Emerging Threat Assessment
    • Foreign Policy Challenges for 2022
    • FINAL BATTLE: FAITH, REASON & MILITANCY
    • The World's Most Pressing Foreign Policy Challenge
    • Geography, Strategy, Great Power Competition
    • Monetarism, SANCTIONS & TERROR FINANCING
    • Congressional Reform
    • Demography
    • Pentagon Acquisition Reform
    • Quadrennial Defense Review Posture
    • Post Bretton-Woods: Monetary & Exchange Rate Reform
    • Thought Leadership: International Political Economy, Foreign Affairs
  • Regional Policies
    • Monetary Regimes, Exchange Rates, Capital - Current Accounts, Crisis
    • Fiscal Policy
    • Macro Trends
    • China
    • Mexico/Central/South America
    • Israel
    • Iran
    • Iraq
    • Russia
    • India
    • Syria
    • Chechnya
    • Pakistan
    • Africa
    • North Korea
  • Media
    • TED Video & Talks
    • Radio
    • Television
    • Newspapers
    • Book Reviews
  • About
    • CAFE HAYEK
    • The Most Pressing Challenge Facing America
    • The Revolution in Military Affairs
  • U.S. Central Command CENTCOM: The Long War
  • State of the Nation
  • SOUNDCLOUD
  • International Relations Jobs: Global Ranking Think Tanks
  • Tribute: Fouad Ajami & Bernard Lewis
  • Women & International Affairs
  • William Holland Blog
  • Podcasts
  • Contact
    • Topical Newsletter
  • OIL - ENERGY MARKETS

EMERGING THREAT ASSESSMENT
GLOBAL STRIKE MEDIA.COM 
NORTH AMERICA 

A BLOOD RED MOON FOR AMERICA'S ENEMIES; HITTING IRAN QUICKLY

7/28/2018

0 Comments

 
0 Comments

THREAT ANALYSIS FOR NORTH KOREA & THE ISLAMISTS

7/28/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
0 Comments

RUSSIA & THE WORLD OF ISLAM BY ROBERT SERVICE

7/28/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
Russia And The World of Islam: Within And Without
by Robert Service via Analysis
Of all the world's great powers, Russia has the longest and most tangled experience of Islam at home and abroad. Muslims have led or taken part in revolts.  Chechnya is only the latest such rebellion against Russian rule. Tsars, commissars, and now presidents have had to contend with internal difficulties that are aggravated by external Islamic interference. They have also intervened actively in Muslim countries in the "near abroad" and in the Middle East. This makes for danger in world politics.
0 Comments

THE AFRICAN HORN LIGHTS UP:  AL-QAEDA

7/24/2018

0 Comments

 
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/07/shabaab-again-assaults-base-where-us-soldier-died.php
America ignores Africa to its peril 
Emily Estelle | The National Interest
0 Comments

MAO'S PORTRAIT HIT WITH VANDALISM:  THE WAR FOR THE SOUL OF CHINA IS ON

7/22/2018

0 Comments

 
0 Comments

DANIEL ORGEGA WELCOMES MOTHER RUSSIA AGAIN TO NICARAGUA & MOTHER RUSSIA IN CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA AGAIN

7/22/2018

0 Comments

 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-in-central-america-again-1531074911
Russianism
by Victor Davis Hanson via National Review
Trump’s critics need a scapegoat to explain why they haven’t managed to vanquish him.
0 Comments

DOLLAR DENOMINATED FOREIGN HELD DEBT:  DANGEROUS

7/20/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
US debt 'double whammy' unsettles emerging markets 
James C. Capretta | RealClearPolicy 
 
India's central bank governor Urjit Patel has urged the Fed to make a course correction to prevent a further diversion of significant amounts of available global capital away from emerging market economies. James Capretta argues that Patel may have a point, noting that India's rupee has fallen more than 6 percent relative to the dollar since October last year. Additionally, the currencies of Argentina, Brazil, and Turkey have each fallen by more than 20 percent relative to the dollar over the past six months. However, the Trump administration seems unaware and unconcerned about the risks its fiscal policy might create for the global economy. Consequently, Capretta believes the pleas coming in from around the world are not likely to have much effect in Washington. 

 
 
Ignore emerging market economics at your peril 
Desmond Lachman | InsideSources  
 
According to the International Monetary Fund, the emerging market economies now account for over half of the world economy. At the same time, their governments and their corporations are hugely indebted to the global financial system as they have never been before. Desmond Lachman argues that the administration and the Federal Reserve are ignoring, at their peril, the adverse effect of monetary, fiscal, and trade policies on the emerging market economies, including Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, and Turkey. Should those economies falter because of US policies, given their combined size, they could materially affect both the US and the world’s economic and financial systems. However, in light of the latest America First trade measures and of Chairman Jerome Powell’s recent pronouncements that the emerging market economies are not a factor in the Fed’s monetary policy decisions, Lachman fears it is unlikely the emerging market economies will get any relief from US economic policy decisions.
Picture
0 Comments

THE GEOPOLITICS OF LONDON & THE BREXIT

7/20/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
CHATHAM HOUSE UK
geopolitics_london_england_joined_world.01.pdf
File Size: 1180 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

British Politics Is Degraded And Divisive
mentioning Peter M. Robinson via Merion West
British politics is in a state of degradation not seen for decades, with both main political parties divided among themselves, engaging in solipsistic infighting while the country burns.
0 Comments

IS CHINA TALKING ITSELF INTO WAR WITH U.S.

7/19/2018

0 Comments

 
0 Comments

LONDON IDENTIFIES RUSSIAN NERVE AGENTS

7/19/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
Britain has identified Russians suspected of Skripal nerve attack
(Reuters) British police have identified several Russians who they believe were behind the nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, the Press Association reported on Thursday, citing a source close to the investigation.
0 Comments

GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA

7/19/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
Sharia or Sahara: What’s Behind the Genocide in Nigeria?
0 Comments

IRAN SUPPORTS THE PALESTINIANS

7/19/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
GATESTONE INSTITUTE
0 Comments

RUSSIA'S SOUTHERN TIER HEATS UP & CHINA TARGETS TAIWAN

7/18/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
CHINA: China Begins Large-Scale Exercise Targeting Taiwan 
By Jesse Johnson, The Japan Times: “China reportedly began a six-day, large-scale, live-fire military drill in an area of the East China Sea “similar in size to the island of Taiwan” on Wednesday.”

RUSSIA: New Russian Naval Base in Dagestan Assumes More Menacing Dimension 
By Paul Goble, Eurasia Daily Monitor: “Moscow is relocating the home base of its Caspian Flotilla from Astrakhan to a new port facility in Kaspiysk, Dagestan, an action scheduled to be completed by the end of this year.
0 Comments

XI SHOULD TAKE TRUMPS MEASURE IN OHIO:  ELECTIONEERING FOR THE NOVEMBER SURPRISE  & TRUMP, PUTIN AND NIXONIAN GEOPOLITICS

7/16/2018

0 Comments

 
HENRY OLSEN  
Ohio Tea Leaves
A crucial special election for a House seat could foretell November results.

Trump, Putin, and Nixonian Geopolitics
By Francis P. Sempa, RealClearDefense: “The media, commentary, and political noise in the aftermath of the Trump-Putin summit missed the most important takeaway from the event: the return of Nixonian geopolitics.”
0 Comments

CASTRO'S PROTEGE IN NICARAGUA REELING

7/16/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
Silence on Nicaragua from Sanders and Di Blasio Helps the Regime’s Repression
0 Comments

COUNTERING FINANCIAL NETWORKS FOR WMD

7/13/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
FDD
0 Comments

NATO HAS NO STOMACH FOR WAR WHILE TURKEY BUYS RUSSIAN S400

7/12/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
NATO’s problem is that Europeans won’t fight
BY SPENGLER
It is refreshing to hear an American president call the Europeans out for the sybarites and deadbeats they are
Turkey defiant on purchase of Russian S-400 anti-missile weapon
(Defense News) Turkey’s foreign minister defended his government’s choice Wednesday to buy the Russian S-400 missile defense system, presenting it as the second-best option only because NATO allies declined to sell Western hardware. 

0 Comments

SPECULATION ON $150 OIL & CHINA'S INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS

7/12/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
Speculation About $150 Oil And The (Inevitable) Rise Of Deep Water Companies
One effect the American shale boom had in triggering the oil price collapse of 2014 – it drove discipline and technology into the offshore oil domains where breakeven costs now match or are lower than shale. With oil prices and profits rising, the race begins again to over-supply the world.om Mark P. Mills
China’s global investment
Derek Scissors | American Enterprise Institute 
Several large transactions have driven China’s 2018 outbound investment, featuring a $9 billion transport play in Germany. The top five investment targets in 2018 sit on five different continents. China’s overseas spending habits are more diverse than many believe.
0 Comments

UGANDA & THE CONGO CLASH IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA, MACRON ADDRESSES NIGERIA

7/10/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
  Uganda and Congo forces clash in Lake Edward dispute
(Deutsche Welle) Tensions over an energy-rich border lake have ratcheted up with the death of 12 fishermen. The DRC has said Ugandan troops are firing on "anything that moves." 
0 Comments

HOW AUTOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS DETERMINE THREATS

7/9/2018

0 Comments

 
It takes two to tango
Oriana Skylar Mastro | Journal of Strategic Studies 
What factors do autocracies evaluate when responding to perceived threats? Oriana Skylar Mastro posits that autocratic leaders may choose greater exposure to an external threat if it preserves regime legitimacy. The desire to promote a positive image to one’s domestic public creates incentives to publicly downplay a rival’s military progress, which then affects the state’s ability to mobilize resources to respond to the growing threat.


0 Comments

HEZBOLLAH NOW RUNNING WEST AFRICA & ETHIOPIA BREAKS NEW PEACE INITIATIVE

7/6/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
  • WINEP’s Mona Alami: Hezbollah allegedly training Nigerian Shiites to expand influence in West Africa
GATESTONE:  ETHIOPIA 
0 Comments

PUTIN OWNS SYRIA NOW

7/6/2018

0 Comments

 
MEF:  SYRIA IS LEBANON
FDD:  WHY TRUMP NEEDS RUSSIA IN SYRIA
Trump, Putin agree to try to solve Syria crisis, preserve Israel’s security 
(Wall Street Journal) President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to work together on solving the Syrian crisis—with both focusing on the need to guarantee Israel’s security. 

  • WINEP’s Dennis Ross: We already gave Syria to Putin, so what’s left for Trump to say?
Abdel Raheem Said writes: In June, Turkey and the United States announced that they had agreed to implement a roadmap to promote peace in the Syrian city of Manbij, which has been under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces since the 2016 expulsion of ISIS. [...]However, it remains to be seen how this agreement will affect relations between Washington and its Kurdish allies in Syria, who are still fighting ISIS in Deir al-Zour’s countryside. - Washington Institute
 What does Assad’s southwestern offensive mean for the future of Syria?
(War On The Rocks) In recent weeks, the Bashar al-Assad regime has launched an offensive, backed by Russian airstrikes, to recapture opposition-held territory in southwestern Syria. The fighting is centered in Daraa Province, near the Jordanian border, and in the nearby province of Quneitra to the west, which borders the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. 
0 Comments

THE RECONQUEST OF SPAIN & CHINA'S VULNERABLE SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM

7/3/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/the-‘mustard-seed’-that-liberated-spain-from-islam
China's domestic social credit system has garnered controversy and fear, and according to a new report its influence is now reaching well beyond the country's borders. Due to be rolled out nationally in 2020, it's thought China's social credit system will assign a Black Mirror-like "trustworthiness" score to citizens and reward or punish them in return. - Business Insider
0 Comments

AFRICA'S SECRET WAR FOR AMERICA

7/2/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
Behind the secret U.S. war in Africa
(Politico) Despite Pentagon assertions, secret programs allow American troops to direct combat raids in Somalia, Kenya, Niger and other African nations. 

0 Comments

LITTLE KIM STARTS HIS PROGRAM AGAIN & BOLTON REVEALS U.S. PLAN TO DISMANTLE PROGRAM

7/2/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture
Oriana Skylar Mastro
Bolton says the US has a plan to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear program within a year
(The Associated Press) President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said Sunday the U.S. has a plan that would lead to the dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs in a year.
0 Comments
    Peering into crystal ball; future of war
    File Size: 23699 kb
    File Type: pdf
    Download File


    Picture
    salafi-jihadi-ecosystem-in-the-sahel.pdf
    File Size: 1223 kb
    File Type: pdf
    Download File


    BEYOND COUNTER-TERRORISM
    Picture
    HOW THE SALIFI-JIHADI MOVEMENT IS WINNING
    beyond-counterterrorism.pdf
    File Size: 4094 kb
    File Type: pdf
    Download File

    road-to-the-caliphate-onepager.pdf
    File Size: 139 kb
    File Type: pdf
    Download File

    road-to-the-caliphate.pdf
    File Size: 9385 kb
    File Type: pdf
    Download File

    rpt-fp-zimmerman_americas-real-enemy-online.pdf
    File Size: 1436 kb
    File Type: pdf
    Download File

    salafi-threat-onepager-final.pdf
    File Size: 2059 kb
    File Type: pdf
    Download File


    Picture

    Picture
    POD CAST/LECTURE

    Picture
    ISRAELI NEWS NETWORK

    Picture

    Picture

    Picture

    Picture
    IRAN FOCUS.COM


    Picture
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE NEAR EAST POLICY

    Picture

    Picture
    STRATEGY BRIDGE

    Picture

    Picture

    Picture

    Picture

    Picture
    HOW TO DEFEAT THE ISLAMIC STATE & AFFILIATES

    Tweets by WilliamHolland

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    July 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015


    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed


    Tweets by LongWarJournal

What Our Clients Are Saying

"For topical research on items related to international political economy, unrivaled."

Contact Us

    Subscribe Today!

Submit