Alaska

Spectrum Abundance for Weird Space Stuff

Taiwan to secure energy soft spots

The war in Iran indicates that the fight over controlling global energy flows is far from over. A close partner of Tehran, Beijing is no doubt factoring lessons from the conflict into its designs to...

The Strait of Hormuz: The Military, Energy, and Economic Challenges

In Major Reversal, Taiwan Seeks To Rewire Its Energy Strategy by Restarting its Nuclear Plants

The Taiwanese government is reversing course on permanently closing its nuclear reactors. Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has presented a plan to restart two of the island’s shuttered nuclear reactors...

U.S. Intelligence Community Omits Key Russian Threat in Annual Assessment

Moscow’s favorite color in the Arctic is gray. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) Annual Threat Assessment correctly identifies Russia as the dominant Arctic threat and...

Iran War Provides Opportunity for Russia To Test U.S. Alaska Defenses

As the U.S.-led war against Iran’s clerical regime continues apace, Russia is testing American capabilities in another corner of the globe. Two Russian maritime patrol aircraft flew through the Alaskan...

The State of American Energy Dominance

This symposium assess U.S. energy policy over the past year. Opening with keynote remarks by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, it analyzes how energy policy intersects with U.S. strategic interests across regions, examines efforts to accelerate AI power infrastructure buildout and stabilize the grid, and explores the administration's mining and minerals strategy and its approach to countering China's influence over critical resources. 

Greenland’s Worth a Fight and Russia’s Trying to Start One

The “quickest way for Russia to penetrate our naval defenses is steaming from the Arctic to the North Atlantic.” The Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom (GIUK) Gap is the last place allied forces “have...

The new Greenland deal

With America leading and NATO following, the Arctic can be defended

Maritime Protection of Taiwan’s Energy Vulnerability

Chinese Coercion of Taiwan’s Energy Lifelines: A Contest Taiwan and the West Can’t Afford to Lose

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U.S. Cuts Tariffs, Lowers Trade Tensions With China After Trump-Xi Meeting

Trump and Xi Meet: President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea on October 30, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. When...

‘Russia Does Not Feel Enough Pressure’: Ukraine Bombarded Over 2 Deadly Nights as Trump Sours on Meeting With Putin

Kindergarten Hit in Kharkiv: Russia launched drone and missile strikes targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure in Kyiv and other cities on the night of October 21-22, killing...

Meeting Zelenskyy, Trump Signals Reluctance on Sending Cruise Missiles to Ukraine

Trump Cautious on  Tomahawks: U.S. President Donald Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on October 17, where the leaders discussed the possibility...

Trump will help Ukraine hit Putin where it hurts — to finally end his bloody war

President Donald Trump — after repeatedly warning the Kremlin that his patience was wearing thin over its continuing invasion of Ukraine — has begun to match words with action. As Moscow continues...

Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September

Welcome back to the Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide trendlines of very positive, positive, neutral, negative, or very negative for the areas they watch. ...

China and Russia Sign Agreement to Build New Energy Pipeline

New Gas Pipeline Through Siberia: Alexey Miller, head of Russia’s state-owned energy corporation Gazprom, announced that Moscow and Beijing had reached a “legally binding”...

‘Kremlin Will Stop at Nothing to Terrorize Ukraine’: Russia Defies Trump’s Peace Process With Massive Overnight Barrage in Kyiv

Attacks Killed Ukrainian Civilians: Russia struck Ukraine with one of its largest missile and drone barrages since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Russia bombarded Kyiv...

Oil holds the key to Ukraine war’s end — if Trump plays hardball

President Donald Trump wants to stop the killing in Ukraine, but Russia’s foot-dragging is making it abundantly clear that he’ll need to apply far more pressure before any serious negotiations...

Why we should still be terrified of Putin’s rewriting of Russian history

The Trump administration must not fall prey to Putin’s KGB tactics of psychological manipulation