By, Luis Zúñiga, contributor. Political analyst and former diplomat On the front page of Granma, the official newspaper of Cuba’s communist regime, on January 4 of this year, the following headline appeared: “Information from the Revolutionary Government (of Cuba) on combatants fallen in the fulfillment of their...
By, LTC Octavio Pérez, U.S. Army (Ret.), Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, MSI² As we said, after the September 3rd parade, the cat is out of the bag. Sightings, full media coverage, and in-your-face maneuvers are now taking place openly for the world to observe. As we mentioned in...
By, Verioska Velasco, Senior Fellow, MSI² The recent activation of the Chinese operation Justice Mission 2025 marks a new point of military pressure on Taiwan. These are military exercises that include live-fire maneuvers and the designation of five zones around the island, subject to maritime and airspace...
By, Octavio Pérez, Co-Founder & Senior Fellow, MSI² Whether you want to start with the military achievements, the internal economic issues, or what is happening geopolitically, you have more than a three-course meal… Let’s start with today’s news: the military achievements. The starship of the PLA Navy, CV-18 Fujian,...
By, Octavio Pérez, Senior Fellow, MSI² As an officer in the Army, my first job as a lieutenant was as a training officer at a Basic Combat Training Brigade at Ft Leonard Wood, MO, 1978-80. Having gone to the Drill Sargent Academy for ITC (Instructor Training Course)...
By, Octavio Pérez, Senior Fellow, MSI² In recent days, multiple news services, including Chinese and Taiwanese news sources, have written about the previous confrontation between Pakistan and India. Operation Sindoor was supposed to attack terrorist camps and accomplices, but it went a bit more than that, apart...
By, Jesús Daniel Romero, Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, MSI² & PK Kelley, SME China’s expanding economic and military footprint in Latin America and the Caribbean—coupled with increasingly agile asymmetric threats and escalating humanitarian crises—demands a strategic overhaul of U.S. military posture in the Western Hemisphere (Ellis, 2023)....
By, LTC (US Army, Ret.) Octavio Pérez— Senior Fellow, Politico-Military Affairs, MSI2 We often consider military strength to be calculated merely by a country’s Armed Forces strength: the number of personnel, equipment, and weapons systems. But we omit combat multipliers that either enhance or cover voids, which...