Trump: Open Hormuz Strait or Face Bombed Power Plants

Diplomats speaking with the Financial Times said Saudi Arabia has been discussing developing a mutual defense pact among Gulf Arab states and Iran.  Two Western diplomats told FT that the framework for the pact would resemble the 1970s Helsinki Process. The 1975 agreement reduced tensions in Europe by increasing trade.  The proposal from Riyadh comes […]

The US and South Korea announced they will hold the annual Freedom Shield war games in March.  Freedom Shield is a large-scale military drill held in South Korea each Spring. The war games will run for 10 days in mid-March, with 18,000 troops participating. Army Col. Ryan Donald said the war games will be accompanied […]

Chinese Navy Pushes Dutch Frigate From Claimed Waters Via Electronic Warfare The Netherlands has become the latest Western nation to tangle with Beijing and exchange tense words after testing its sweeping claims to the South China Sea. A tense military encounter unfolded involving a Dutch warship, identified as the HNLMS De Ruyter, after it had entered waters near the disputed Paracel Islands. China's military reportedly used electronic warfare measures to force it out of the China-claimed waters in the incident on Wednesday. source: Defensie.nl Chinese military spokesperson Zhai Shichen later charged that the Dutch ship...