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This article was originally published in U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s magazine Indo-Pacific Defense FORUM, on November 12, 2024. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is not an Arctic nation. Its northern border is nearly 1,500 kilometers from the Arctic Circle and even farther from the Arctic Ocean. Yet the PRC is encroaching upon the frozen region to control its vast resources…
This article was first published in U.S. Northern Command’s magazine The Watch, Volume 5, 2024. The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) has emerged as a premier security cooperation tool that delivers information-sharing techniques, joint training exercises and intelligence cooperation to counter a multitude of shared challenges. A U.S. Department of Defense institute with the Secretary of the Army…
This article was first published in U.S. Northern Command’s magazine The Watch, Volume 5, 2024. Threats to hemispheric security are myriad: trafficking in people, weapons and drugs; illegal fishing and mining; climate change and environmental fallout; corruption; cybercrimes and digital disinformation; predatory violence and extortion; and targeted challenges to international law, including human rights violations. Countering the threat networks…
This article was originally published in Per Concordiam, a publication of U.S. European Command in coordination with the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, on September 12, 2024. China and Russia are expanding their defense cooperation through joint military exercises, visits of high-level defense officials, and arms trade and cooperation on military technology. These joint military exercises have…
This article was first published in Indo-Pacific Defense Forum, a publication of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, on August 14, 2023. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging existential warfare against the rest of the world. It is a war for global control, and the CCP aspires to win it without fighting — or at least without having to engage in major…
This article was first published in Per Corcordiam, a publication of U.S. European Command, on September 12, 2024. The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) economic and political position in Europe is extremely important to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and effort is being made to enhance that position. The PRC engages in political alignment, intelligence gathering, information control and measured…
This article was originally published by the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, Florida International University in September 2024. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the past decade, Russian-based companies have provided sophisticated surveillance technology to several Latin American countries. These technologies are critical to the survival of the repressive regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, and possibly criminal nonstate actors…
The existing asymmetries between China and Russia are an element to distinguish the influence capabilities of both countries in Latin America. While the People's Republic of China is understood as a rising global power, provided with abundant financial resources to capture elites and access strategic sectors within Latin American nations -through investment projects, loans and "non-reimbursable cooperation", the regional reach…
This article was first published in the Indo-Pacific Defense FORUM on December 18, 2024. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) continues to face international criticism for violating the sovereignty of nations across the globe with its “overseas police service stations,” clandestine offices established in many cases without the approval or knowledge of countries that become their unsuspecting hosts. Rights advocates…
From August 26-29, 2024, I had the honor of participating as the moderator of the Central America and Caribbean Air Chiefs Conference, hosted by the leadership of U.S. Air Forces Southern (12th Air Force) in Tucson, Arizona. The event was an opportunity for the heads of the Air Forces of the region to discuss shared challenges, from organized crime and…
This article was first published in the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs on November 15, 2023 The Indian Ocean is becoming a major theater of geopolitical contest for strategic dominance in the wider Indo-Pacific. The Western Indian Ocean (WIO), in particular, has emerged as the strategic center stage for great-power games. This region comprises the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Red Sea,…
Summary The constant evolution of information and communication technologies, in the context of global dynamics, have become par excellence the dynamizing engine of the ideological media pulse in the scenarios of bidding and great power competition, where the imperious eagerness of the opponents to conquer the minds of the legitimizing entity, has resulted in the gestation of hybrid-type phenomena that…
