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L. Todd Wood

L. Todd Wood, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, flew special operations helicopters supporting SEAL Team 6, Delta Force and others. After leaving the military, he pursued his other passion, finance, spending 18 years on Wall Street trading emerging market debt, and later, writing. The first of his many thrillers is "Currency." Todd is a contributor to Fox Business, Newsmax TV, Moscow Times, the New York Post, the National Review, Zero Hedge and others. For more information about L. Todd Wood, visit LToddWood.com.

Articles by L. Todd Wood

President Trump has pointed out that many of our NATO allies don't pay enough for the collective defense. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump treats NATO like a jealous girlfriend

I was reminded of our president's impressive bargaining skills once again when I opened an email just this morning from a successful and influential conservative friend of mine, who wrote, "I finally figured out Trump and NATO. He is treating the alliance like a jealous girlfriend. He wants them to pay more and just showing the consequences if they don't."

January 26, 2017
In this undated image from video distributed on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, by North Korean broadcaster KRT, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech in Pyongyang. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hinted Sunday that Pyongyang may be hoping to ring in the new year with another bang - the test-launch of an ICBM. In his annual New Years address, Kim said that after testing what the North claims was its first H-bomb last year, preparations for launching an intercontinental ballistic missile have reached the final stage. (KRT via AP)

North Korea places 2 ICBMs in position to fire

Suspiciously timed to the Trump inauguration, the North Korean military has placed two intercontinental ballistic missiles into position north of the capital. The road-mobile missiles are ready to fire and look to be a new model. They have possibly been positioned to purposefully be picked up by U.S. intelligence.

January 23, 2017
Moldovan President Igor Dodon attends a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. Moldova's new president, who is visiting Russia on his first trip abroad, is voicing hope for rebuilding "strategic" ties with Moscow. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool Photo via AP)

While elites fiddle, Russia advances in East Europe

Not many Americans can locate Moldova, a tiny former Soviet republic with a mostly ethnic Romanian population bordered by Ukraine and Romania, on a map. Even fewer could tell you that Moldova was once part of Romania and won its independence with the fall of the Soviet Union, only to have Russia carve out a separatist ethnic Russian enclave called Transdniester, complete with Russian troops and recognized as independent only by the Kremlin.

January 19, 2017
FILE - In this May 10, 2016, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at parade participants at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea is marking Kim Jong Un's birthday Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 in a decidedly low-key manner. Though the young leader's birthday is well-known throughout the country, it has yet to be celebrated with the kind of adulatory festivities that accompany the birthdays of his late grandfather and father. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Kim Jong-un so fat he can’t walk

North Korea's dictator has been packing on the pounds. It seems he has a lust for cheese and pleasure squads of young Korean girls.

January 18, 2017
A man inspects destroyed houses after fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants in a neighborhood recently liberated from the militia on the eastern side of Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

ISIS strikes Iraq with drone grenades

As Iraqi and coalition forces move on Mosul, the Islamic State has become more creative and devious in the type of devices used to deliver explosives. American forces in the region are now reporting that ISIS is using commercial drones to drop grenades on precise targets.

January 17, 2017
Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated after the election of Donald Trump. (Associated Press)

Vladimir Putin meets his match with Donald Trump

Donald Trump is saying all the right things to make the Kremlin giddy. He has prepared the negotiating field ahead of time. He is already winning when it comes to dealing with Russia.

January 12, 2017
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, is anchored in the northern port in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. Taiwan's defense ministry said China's sole aircraft carrier on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 was transiting the Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions between the mainland and self-governing island it claims as its own territory. (Wu Dengfeng/Xinhua via AP, File)

China sails warships thru Taiwan Strait

The communist People's Republic of China -- rattled by Donald Trump's overtures to Taiwan, which China regards as a renegade province -- sailed a flotilla of warships through the Taiwan Strait, including its only Soviet-built aircraft carrier, Liaoning.

January 11, 2017
In the run-up to the European Council summit, Russia once again deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to its enclave of Kaliningrad, which borders Lithuania and Poland. (Associated Press/File)

Israeli satellite confirms Russia providing Syria with advanced missiles

Russia has long been thought to be providing advanced weapons to Syrian forces in the civil war that has raged for several years. Israel has executed pre-emptive attacks against Syria in the past to prevent the Shia state from obtaining advanced capabilities that could pose an existential threat to the Israeli military of the Jewish state.

January 6, 2017
A Russian Marine aims his pistol during a Capability Demonstration at Manila's Rizal Park, Philippines on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. Russia is eyeing naval exercises with the Philippines and deployed two navy ships for a goodwill visit to Manila as Moscow moves to expand defense ties with the country. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Pushing back when Russia tests its limits

Russian President Vladimir Putin learned a valuable lesson in 2013, when President Obama laid down his famous "red line" against chemical weapons use in Syria — a problem that Mr. Putin "solved" and thus headed off an American attack on Moscow's longtime ally.

January 5, 2017
Russia's Ambassador to the Philippines Igor A. Khovaev, left seated, answers questions from reporters beside Russian Rear Adm. Eduard Mikhailov, Deputy Commander of Flotilla of Pacific Fleet of Russia, during a press conference on board the Russian Navy vessel Admiral Tributs, a large anti-submarine ship, at Manila's pier, Philippines on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Russia is eyeing naval exercises with the Philippines and deployed two navy ships for a goodwill visit to Manila on Tuesday as Moscow moves to expand defense ties with a Filipino president known for being hostile to the U.S. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Russia offers Philippines arms, strong handshake

The Obama administration has presided over the betrayal and loss of American allies around the globe. One of the most recent, and most serious loss of friendship and shared interests has come in the Philippines.

January 4, 2017
In this undated image from video distributed on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, by North Korean broadcaster KRT, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech in Pyongyang. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hinted Sunday that Pyongyang may be hoping to ring in the new year with another bang - the test-launch of an ICBM. In his annual New Years address, Kim said that after testing what the North claims was its first H-bomb last year, preparations for launching an intercontinental ballistic missile have reached the final stage. (KRT via AP)

North Korea ICBM claims are true

The hermit regime of Kim Jong-un declared this week that the North Korean military will soon test an intercontinental ballistic missile that could threaten the United States and its allies anywhere in the world.

January 2, 2017
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in Moscow, Russia on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. Putin is ordering to scale down the Russian military presence in Syria. Putin made the statement Thursday while declaring that a cease-fire in Syria brokered by Russia and Turkey will start at midnight. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

When the EU devil went down to Georgia

Ukraine aside, one of the most coveted areas of the former Soviet Union is the tiny but strategically located country of Georgia, on the doorstep to the Caucasus. And a tug-of-war between Brussels and Moscow in recent days shows the size of the stakes involved.

December 29, 2016
In this Aug. 17, 2016 photo, people watch a TV news program showing a file image of Thae Yong Ho, a high-profile North Korean defector, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. Thae told on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, South Korean lawmakers that he decided to flee because of disillusionment with what he describes as a "tyrannical reign of terror" by leader Kim Jong Un. The letters read "A high-ranking North Korean diplomat." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

North Korea sets 2017 as nuclear development deadline

One of the most pressing situations for the incoming Trump administration will be the communist regime of Kim Jong-un in North Korea and its desire to obtain ballistic missile nuclear capability. For his part, the North Korean leader seems to believe it is now or never to develop the technology to threaten the West and its allies in the Pacific with atomic attack.

December 28, 2016