41 - Who Controls the Caribbean?
In 1823 US President James Monroe declared "The Monroe Doctrine", that the Western hemisphere would be the backyard of the United States. That doctrine is now almost 200 years old and the world is a v...
18 Apr 20211h 16min
40 - Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia (A War for the Crossroads)
Georgia has been at the heart of regional geopolitics for decades now, smashed between three expanding areas of influence from Moscow, Ankara and Tehran, with Georgia desperately trying to act as the ...
4 Apr 20211h 39min
39 - Pakistan's Two Front War
When Obama left the White House he stated that the thing that kept him up at night more than anything else was the potential for Pakistan and India to stumble into an unplanned nuclear exchange. Wha...
21 Mar 20211h 42min
38 - Iraq: What Went Wrong?
For a number of years Iraq has been spiraling, with worsening insurgencies, sectarian violence and numerous regional players all treating Iraq like a political battleground. How did we get here though...
7 Mar 20211h 51min
37 - The Geopolitics of Rare Earths
We dont think much about it but Rare Earth elements are a huge part of our everyday life, powering our phones, laptops, satellites and cars. The thing we all overlook though is where those Rare Earths...
21 Feb 20211h 37min
36 - Lake Chad (Boko Haram and the French Foreign Legion)
Lake Chad has shrunk by almost 90% since 1960, and the situation on the ground is becoming a breeding ground for regional terrorism. Outfits like Boko Haram, and ISIS in Africa are now capturing big p...
7 Feb 20211h 10min
35 - Ukraine and the War in the East
Russias entire defense strategy relies on a friendly or neutral Ukraine, so when Ukraine almost turned to the west in a revolution in 2014 panic swept the Kremlin; and Russia invaded and occupied the ...
24 Jan 20211h 28min
34 - Could China Conquer Taiwan?
Xi has thrown down the gauntlet and stated that Taiwan will return to the Peoples Republic of China by 2049, whether Taiwan wants it or not. So now a countdown timer has started, and Taiwan scrambles ...
10 Jan 20211h 31min
