Every now and then I read a post, usually a rant, making flippant commentary about whether or not China poses a national security threat to the United States. The relationship between the U.S. and China is a complex one; however, spend enough time studying it and you’ll learn that there is more to this relationship [...]
This week in Geneva, Switzerland experts in various field including security, science, health, and law enforcement will kick off the seventh review conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Like most United Nations confabs, there will be several weeks of discussions, and parties, all on the taxpayer dime.
These meetings are not without consequence. Most [...]
The Obama Administration says it is planning a complete U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq for later this year, but the Iraqis are buying U.S.-made defense articles. And that is a good thing.
According to a notice in today’s Federal Register, the Defense Department published a 36(b) notification that it proposes to sell $82 million in [...]
It is very easy to cast aspersions on political opponents when you have nothing to lose. Most of the time people do this when they have little, if any, logical argument to use against an adversary. Take the case of special interest groups in this town that support normalization of relations, without conditions, with dictatorial [...]
Senior U.S. government officials announced yesterday another sanctions volley against the Iranian regime’s Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL). The Justice Department announced a 317 count indictment against IRISL for violating U.S. sanctions laws, while the Treasury Department announced the addition of ten Iranian businesses and three executives as specially designated nationals or SDNs.
If [...]
Yesterday U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced a new license exception to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) that “authorizes the export, reexport, and transfer (in- country) of specified items to destinations that pose relatively low risk that those items will be used for a purpose that license requirements are designed to prevent.”
“This [...]
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