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U.S. Space Defenses and Vulnerabilities: Strategic Considerations
The United States has long held an edge in all facets of warfare, an advantage shared with its allies, including NATO, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and others. While the West has maintained this dominance for decades, Russia and China are increasingly challenging this superiority. The U.S. and Western nations have more to lose Continue reading
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Implications of China-Taiwan Conflict: Strategic Analysis and U.S. Response Scenarios
This is an exploratory analysis. As tensions between the United States of America (U.S.), China and Taiwan keep rising due to China’s one China policy, the risk of miscalculation also continues to rise. While the U.S., China and Taiwan inherently wish to avoid direct conflict with each other that does not discount the likelihood of Continue reading
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Security Clearances Briefly Explained
Security clearance can seem complicated to those not involved in the intelligence community (IC). However, the process is relatively simple. There are only three security clearances in the United States: confidential, secret, and top secret. These three clearances are evaluated against a historical timeline of information, which, in turn, assigns one of the clearances. Obtaining Continue reading
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KGB is Still Alive and Winning Today
It may surprise many Americans to know that the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB), the Soviet Union’s foreign intelligence service, still holds significant power today in the form of its successor. After confidential interviews with various intelligence agencies, Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB counter-intelligence agent, defected to the United States on February 8th, 1970. He was eventually Continue reading
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