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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.

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People watch a TV news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch, at the Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 5, 2016. North Korea fired three ballistic missiles off its east coast Monday, South Korea's military said, in a show of force timed to the G-20 economic summit in China. The letters on the screen read: "North Korea, ballistic missiles to east coast." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea fires 3 ballistic missiles as G-20 meets

North Korea fires 3 ballistic missiles into the sea toward Japan as the leaders of the G-20 met in China. The missiles were of the medium-range Rodong-class. The Japanese and South Korean leaders met on the sidelines of the world gathering to discuss the situation.

September 5, 2016
FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2015, photo, missiles are paraded during a military parade during celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of North Korea's Workers' Party. Skeptics of North Korea’s nuclear threat - and there are many - have long clung to two comforting thoughts: that while the North has the bomb, it doesn’t have a warhead small enough to put on a long-range rocket, much less a re-entry vehicle to keep that warhead from burning up in the atmosphere before it could reach a target like, as it has suggested before, Manhattan. North Korea on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, suggested it will soon show the world it has mastered both technologies. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

North Korean soldiers get nuclear backpacks

As tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula due to North Korean nuclear tests, missile launches, and South Korean military exercises with U.S. forces, a source says the North Korean military has started to arm certain North Korean soldiers with nuclear backpacks.

August 31, 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. Shoigu on Wednesday told President Vladimir Putin in televised remarks that Russia on Wednesday morning carried out 26 missile strikes from four warships of its Caspian Sea flotilla. Shoigu insisted that it destroyed all the targets and did perform any strikes on civilian areas. (Alexei Nikolsky, RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Russia to garrison division less than 100KM from U.S. border

Russia is actively preparing to militarize its eastern coastline with large numbers of troops to be garrisoned from near the U.S. border in Alaska to the Kuril Islands in the south, currently disputed with Japan. The new forces scheduled to arrive in 2018 will be as close as 85km to the US border.

August 29, 2016
In this undated photo distributed on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, by the North Korean government, a missile is launched at an undisclosed location in North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, that his country had achieved the "success of all successes" in launching a missile from a submarine, saying it effectively gave the country a fully equipped nuclear attack capability and put the U.S. mainland within striking distance. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea says it can now nuke U.S. mainland

After a recent, successful submarine-launched ballistic missile, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says the North can now launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. mainland, no longer threatening just U.S. allies South Korea and Japan with nuclear weapons.

August 26, 2016
In this file photo, a Russian made Indian Air Force Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft is seen on display at at Yelahanka air base on the outskirts of Bangalore, India. The Obama administration said Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016, that a proposed Russian sale of fighter jets to Iran would violate a U.N. arms embargo on Tehran, setting up another standoff related to last year's nuclear negotiations. A State Department spokesman said transferring the Sukhoi-30 jets, comparable to American F-15E fighter bombers, requires the U.N. Security Council's approval. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File) **FILE**

Iran to buy Sukhoi fighter jets From Russia

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan told Iran TV on Sunday evening that the Islamic Republic will negotiate to buy Sukhoi fighter and attack aircraft from Russia as the S-300 buy is nearing its end.

August 22, 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attend the ASEAN – Russia summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, pool) **FILE**

Russia cements the new Russia-Shia axis in Middle East

Control of the Middle East has long been a Soviet and now Russian objective. Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has achieved that goal by creating a new axis of power in theater, an axis of Russia, Iran, and Syria. Mr. Putin has cemented that control by deploying strategic bombers to Iran to attack the Islamic State and possibly anti-Assad forces in Aleppo.

August 17, 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre, flanked by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, and Federal Security Service Chief Alexander Bortnikov, right, arrives on a boat after inspecting battleships during a navy parade marking the Victory Day in Sevastopol, Crimea, Friday, May 9, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Russia jumps for joy over wedge between Turkey, NATO

There has been a concerted effort in recent days by the Kremlin to promote Russia's perceived newfound military might. This agenda is part and parcel of Moscow's hybrid warfare that has proven successful in Ukraine and now in the Middle East.

August 11, 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a joint news conference with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan after their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016. (Vasily Maximov/Pool Photo via AP)

Is Russia getting ready for general war with Ukraine?

Russia's FSB, formerly the KGB, has accused Ukraine of two armed incursions into the Crimean Peninsula over the last few days. The Russian security agency says one Russian soldier and another FSB employee were killed. One supposed Ukrainian commando was arrested and a variety of light weapons were reportedly seized.

August 10, 2016