Since January 2018, a game of cops and robbers has played out in the 1,000-nautical-mile stretch of ocean between Taiwan and the 38th parallel. The “robbers” are dozens of Chinese, Taiwanese, Liberian, Sri Lankan, and unflagged tankers engaged in the illicit transfer of sanctioned goods to North Korea and incentivized by a low-risk, high-reward payoff structure. The “cops” are a multinational coalition known as the consisting of the United States and its Five Eyes partners (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom) alongside South Korea, Japan, and France. The coalition...…Since January 2018, a game of cops and robbers has played out in the 1,000-nautical-mile stretch of ocean between Taiwan and the 38th parallel. The “robbers” are dozens of Chinese, Taiwanese, Liberian, Sri Lankan, and unflagged tankers engaged in the illicit transfer of sanctioned goods to North Korea and incentivized by a low-risk, high-reward payoff structure. The “cops” are a multinational coalition known as the consisting of the United States and its Five Eyes partners (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom) alongside South Korea, Japan, and France. The coalition...WW…

“The Americans begged us to only stop firing Ashtar rockets at their bases.” Jaafar al-Husseini, the military spokesman for the Iraqi Shia militia Kata’ib Hizballah, was talking about attacking U.S. forces in Iraq before they left the country in 2011. While uttering these remarks in a February 2018 TV interview, he , as if to seem more assertive. Since then he has threatened U.S. forces on numerous occasions. The , though with much less lethal weapons than the . The attacks, however, have been assessed by the United States to be dangerous enough that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo if the...…“The Americans begged us to only stop firing Ashtar rockets at their bases.” Jaafar al-Husseini, the military spokesman for the Iraqi Shia militia Kata’ib Hizballah, was talking about attacking U.S. forces in Iraq before they left the country in 2011. While uttering these remarks in a February 2018 TV interview, he , as if to seem more assertive. Since then he has threatened U.S. forces on numerous occasions. The , though with much less lethal weapons than the . The attacks, however, have been assessed by the United States to be dangerous enough that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo if the...WW…

Kremlin-backed trolls are disinformation and have their game for the 2020 campaign. U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr has been vague about the probity of foreign assistance, and the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently that it would no longer provide in-person briefings to Congress on foreign electoral interference. To boot, Facebook recently pages linked to Russian intelligence in hopes of heading off a disinformation campaign closer to election day. Four weeks before one of the most important presidential elections in its history, the United States vulnerable to...…Kremlin-backed trolls are disinformation and have their game for the 2020 campaign. U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr has been vague about the probity of foreign assistance, and the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently that it would no longer provide in-person briefings to Congress on foreign electoral interference. To boot, Facebook recently pages linked to Russian intelligence in hopes of heading off a disinformation campaign closer to election day. Four weeks before one of the most important presidential elections in its history, the United States vulnerable to...WW…