Last month on September 22nd in a speech to the assembled delegates of the United Nations, the president of the United States stood before national representatives of the world and threatened mass destruction — “Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly…”
Category: New Definitions of National Security
The Fox’s Realm — Day One to Today
It was first seen in Australia and soon migrated via airway to the United Kingdom and found a tabloid environment in which to flourish. Then, 30 years ago, on this day and month, it went on the prowl in New York City… It found a verdant landscape and rich hunting grounds
Ulanqab and Frontier A.I. Race: China v U.S.
Along comes Ulanqab… a ‘tiny place in Mongolia that you’ve probably never heard of: Ulanqab prefecture…. It’s sparsely populated, 1.5 million people… on windswept grassland on the Mongolian plateau… there is more to this place — (Editor: Much more) than meets the eye…’
Near-term, Mid-term, Long-term — Time to Go Green
A StratDem reminder that our associate, GreenPolicy360.com, is wingman on our political mission. We’re advancing ‘New Definitions of Local, National & Global Security‘ and have been flying a Living Earth mission since the Era of Apollo 8
Snapshot of a Day from WSJ Headlines
July 29th, 2026, in the Modern era, as the Wall Street Journal reports today’s news, the headlines are worth time-stamping as an archive — The politics (watch out for that left turn), and AI (oh open-source Anthropic), and historic wildfires in Europe (but nada about the clear and present security dangers of, uh, climate change) […]
Another Month, Another War Continues
We understand that the US is on record stating that the newest war in the Mideast is a “defensive war”. It isn’t. The newest war was launched as an offensive operation. It can be, should be, described as a continuation of the ‘Bush Doctrine’, of a pre-emptive war as memorialized in ‘shock and awe’ war […]
Trump says he needs another $500 (or $600) billion
On the Donald J Trump ‘Truth Social’ site, this past week the US President announced he would be calling for a vastly expanded military budget. He explained that he wants to build a ‘Dream Military’ … Here at Strategic Demands we say ‘no’ to billions and billions more for new conflicts, wasteful spending, and misdirected […]
Looking Back at 50+ Years of Earth Science
Strategic Demands & GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: #EarthScience News, from then to now … In the late 1960s we witnessed the beginnings of a modern environmental movement and we saw the science work of NASA-NOAA-USGS pioneering US efforts. From the initial Earth Science missions of NASA, planning purposefully set in motion the ongoing collection of Earth data
DOGE – Nuclear Oversight?
Two men @work, Trump & Musk. And Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump, 47th president of the United States, messages the nation on February 16, 2025 – He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.
SpaceX, Starship, Starlink, Starshield… and Next Gen US Space Capabilities, Surveillance & Supremacy
As Elon Musk becomes a major player in the formation of incoming president Donald Trump’s administration, it’s time to take a moment in time and look at what Musk’s businesses bring to the Republican party’s commander-in-chief.
Missed Opportunities Led to Russia-Ukraine War
As the war in Ukraine moves into a tenth year of conflict and over a thousand days of a war Russia calls a ‘special operation’, the escalating war’s reality pushes new nuclear strategies and, as a new U.S. president comes on stage, Strategic Demands recalls a man who speaks of how we got here…
Death of Yahya Sinwar in Gaza War — What’s Next?
News reports of the death of the Hamas leader began to leak out yesterday. Today more details are being revealed. One of his last acts, it seems, as Sinwar lay gravely injured by an Israeli tank shell explosion was… to turn toward a hovering drone monitoring him and throw a stick at it…
Nuclear War, A Scenario
Take time out from the daily news cycle and read, listen, or watch as Annie Jacobsen brings her nuclear war story and intensive research into a deep, dark world of #NuclearWarPlanners, the #EndofTimes, and the #EndGame
Quick Look at the ToC of StratDem’s Associate, GreenPolicy360
Since the social media app TikTok is in the news, let’s talk about our associate, GreenPolicy360’s TocToc. Why not? It’s a Table of Contents, a ToC-a-Lot, and GreenPolicy360 has tens of millions of users globally who’re visiting, using and sharing the Green360-StratDem network
The Temps, The Temps, They Are Rising
Between and during disastrous wars raging with staggering loss of lives and geopolitical moves for land, control, power, religion, there is this… Record tropospheric temperature rise and record sea surface temperature rise. Earth Science is pulsing ‘danger, danger, danger’…
An Associated Press Story of US Nuclear Modernization
A feature news story by the globally distributed Associated Press (AP) service only begins to touch on a deeper story of nuclear proliferation. Strategic Demands takes a few salient lines from the AP update on US nukes and reminds our readers of what we are now calling a “Nuclear Arms Race 3.0”
F-16s and NATO, Russia and US
Years of failed negotiations between the Russian Federation, NATO, EU and US that led to war in Ukraine has entered a next phase. Not a new phase, but a ‘next phase’. The delivery of F-16 fighter systems delivers a next level of fear and loathing — and more that is not in the open
