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Daily Memo: US to Pull Troops From Germany

The U.S. draws down. U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly plans to reduce the number of U.S. troops stationed in Germany by 9,500 and cap the number of U.S. servicemembers in the country at 25,000. Currently, there are 34,500 American troops in Germany. The move has not yet been made official; the White House reportedly informed […]

The Black Sea: The Key to Eurasian Stability?

Halford Mackinder, one of the founding fathers of geopolitics, said that if the Heartland was unstable, the world was unstable. And since the Heartland...

Daily Memo: Russian Oil Will Stay in Russia

Russia redirects exports. Russia’s Ministry of Energy instructed Russian oil companies to redirect a significant portion of oil products meant for export to the...

The Rivalry Between Iran’s Armed Services

A longstanding struggle between the services of Iran’s armed forces spilled into the open this week after the government’s official news agency published an...

Daily Memo: An Anniversary of Political Unrest

31 years after Tiananmen Square. Thursday is the 31st anniversary of the deadly crackdown in Tiananmen Square, when the military opened fire on thousands...

Daily Memo: An Alliance Survives

The U.S.-Philippine alliance revived. On Tuesday, Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin said Manila had suspended the termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement. While the...

Mother Nature as a Geopolitical Force

History is biased, and not just because the victors tend to write it. The study of history is largely the study of humankind –...

Daily Memo: India-China Standoff Gets More Complicated

India’s frictions with its neighbors are becoming more entwined. The Pakistani and Chinese governments on Tuesday finalized an agreement on implementation of the Kohala...

From China to India

U.S.-China relations have been in decline for a long time. The United States had for years provided China with relatively free access to the...

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