Austin Bay

1 week ago | arcamax.com | Austin Bay

Our murky, blood-soaked moment in time demands a new look at geopolitics -- specifically, what constitutes a strategically valuable position that in human terms is worth expending immense wealth and/or using violence to obtain or deny. Understand the violence option means risking soldier sons' and daughters' lives in the struggle. Post-Hiroshima, obtaining or denying the valuable position risks escalation to nuclear devastation.

2 weeks ago | arcamax.com | Austin Bay

The best time to fight a war is when you can win it. Believing America is still economically innovative and its domestic market the world's biggest, the Trump administration has declared war on Big Debt (U.S. national debt). It is simultaneously pushing for the rapid revival and "reshoring" of the nation's withered, spotty and dangerously offshored manufacturing infrastructure. I'd like to hear the president call his economic battle what it is: a strategic war for national survival.

3 weeks ago | arcamax.com | Austin Bay

In mid-February, a firm representing a Democratic Republic of the Congo legislator contacted several U.S. officials. The recipients included Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The letter sketched a sub-Saharan version of President Donald Trump's Ukraine minerals peace initiative. Would the U.S. be interested in acquiring or investing in Congo's enormous and globally unique trove of critical and rare mineral resources? The DRC has gold, copper, cobalt, tin, tantalum (coltan), lithium, gold and diamonds.

1 month ago | arcamax.com | Austin Bay

The news hook title isn't as crisp as World War II's "Loose Lips Sink Ships." It does send the relevant 21st-century message that digital communication systems have security flaws enemies can exploit to gather critical information. WWII's brilliant rhyme warned that loose talk in a New York bar could tell Nazi spies where to position U-boats to intercept convoys.

1 month ago | arcamax.com | Austin Bay

On the morning of March 16, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Fox News the latest U.S. airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi terrorists is a campaign "about freedom of navigation and restoring deterrence. The minute the Houthis say, 'We'll stop shooting at your ships, we'll stop shooting at your (U.S. recon) drones,' this campaign will end. But until then, it will be unrelenting."Unrelenting. That word is the Trump administration's Houthi policy differentiator.