Semiconductors and Taiwan’s “Silicon Shield”

…Note: “Intel debuts 5G base station chips as alternative to Huawei: US chipmaker teams up with Ericsson to grab 40% market share”. Nikkei Asia, February 24, 2020. https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/5G-networks/Intel-debuts-5G-base-station-chips-as-alternative-to-Huawei      Critical…

India’s Military Modernization Efforts Under Prime Minister Modi

…Lok Sabha Secretariat, Ministry of Defence, “ Standing Committee on Defence (2022-23)-Thirty-Sixth Report,” March 2023, https://loksabhadocs.nic.in/lsscommittee/Defence/17_Defence_36.pdf. 50 Lok Sabha Secretariat, Ministry of Defence, “ Standing Committee on Defence (2022-23)-Thirty-Sixth Report,”…

Sustaining Funding for Myanmar’s Spring Revolution

…at https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-says-seven-resistance-members-arrested-for-yangon-assassinations.html.     The military has employed its traditional “four cuts” strategy, a counterinsurgency doctrine that is based not on winning hearts and minds but instead on terrorizing the population into submission.21Emily…

Time to Consider a Trilateral Asian ABM Treaty

…its Prithvi Air Defence capability in 2006 and the Advanced Air Defence capability in December 2007; a number of repeat tests have followed.[9] New Delhi has since been finessing its…