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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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A Russian air force Mi-26 helicopter, front, flies over Red Square during the Victory Parade marking the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (Host photo agency/RIA Novosti Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Russian helicopter shot down while searching for downed pilot: report

The Free Syrian Army, whom Russian aircraft have been targeting in northern Syria to support the Assad regime, says it has shot down a Russian rescue helicopter while it was searching for the Russian pilots who parachuted from their SU-24 after being hit with a Turkish air to air missile.

November 24, 2015
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hand with Syria President Bashar Assad in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Assad has traveled to Moscow in his first known trip abroad since the war broke out in Syria in 2011 to meet his strongest ally Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Syrian and Russian media reported Wednesday. (Alexei Druzhinin, RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

L. TODD WOOD: Putin drives wedge into NATO

Eastern European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance are nervous about the French getting in bed with Russia over the anti-ISIS campaign.

November 23, 2015
Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather stealth multirole fighters undergoing final development and testing by the U.S. military. The F-35A is the conventional takeoff and landing variant. (Lockheed Martin)

L. TODD WOOD: USAF can’t afford F-35, may buy F-15s, F-16s

The U.S. Air Force is having trouble paying for the initial buys for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and may instead purchase F-15, F-16, or F-18 aircraft to provide a stop-gap capability in the near term as the F-35 fleet comes online. The service may buy up to 72 of the older model aircraft.

November 21, 2015
Protesters holding "No war" placards stage a rally against Japanese government in front of the parliament building in Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 18, 2015. Japan's parliament is moving toward final approval of legislation that would loosen post-World War II constraints placed on its military, an issue that has sparked sizable street protests and raised fundamental questions about whether the nation needs to shift away from its pacifist ways to face growing security challenges. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)

L. TODD WOOD: Japan rising will anger China

China and other victims of Japanese aggression 75 years ago have long memories. The fact that Japan now is considering joining the freedom of navigation naval patrols in the South China Sea will stoke this Chinese anger as the Middle Kingdom attempts to project its power in the region.

November 20, 2015
South Korean army soldiers stand guard at Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunom in Paju, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. South Korea fired dozens of shells Thursday at rival North Korea after the North lobbed several rounds across the world's most heavily armed border and threatened to take further action unless Seoul ends its loudspeaker broadcasts. The North denied it fired any shots and warned of retaliation for what it called a serious provocation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

L. TODD WOOD: North Korea wants to talk

North Korea proposes talks with its South Korean counterpart to be held on Nov. 26th at the Truce Village facility, Panmunjeom in the DMZ, according to the North's official news agency, KCNA. South Korea has accepted the invitation, affirmed the South Korean Unification Ministry.

November 20, 2015

L: TODD WOOD: Tsar Vladimir I is on a roll

In the days before the Soviet revolution, when the Russian aristocracy reigned supreme in its glory days, many of this elite group refused to speak Russian, they would only speak French, the language of beauty, sophistication, snobbery. The French hold a special place in the Russian heart.

November 19, 2015
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 a Russian air defense missile system Antey 2500, or S-300 VM, is on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

L. TODD WOOD: Russia to bulk up artillery, missile units by 2021

Russia is planning to massively increase its artillery and missile capability with the creation of several large units by the year 2021. This development comes after multiple reorganizations of the Russian armed forces in the last several years as Russia continues to expand and modernize its combat capability.

November 19, 2015
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is shown the 24 hour Operations Room by the Director of GCHQ Robert Hannigan, center, and Cheltenham MP Alex Chalk at GCHQ in Cheltenham, England, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. Treasury chief George Osborne says the country will double the amount of funds devoted to fighting cyber-crime. Osborne says the Islamic State group is looking to gain the capability to attack infrastructure such as air traffic control or electrical systems. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES

L. TODD WOOD: Islamic State planning violent cyber attacks

Today, in response to the hacker group Anonymous declaring digital war on the Islamic State after the Paris attacks, the United Kingdom was hit with a massive denial of service (DDoS) attack in an apparent act of cyber revenge.

November 18, 2015
U.S. President Barack Obama , right, talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, prior to a session of the G-20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015. The leaders of the Group of 20 were wrapping up their two-day summit in Turkey Monday against the backdrop of heavy French bombardment of the Islamic State's stronghold in Syria. The bombings marked a significant escalation of France's role in the fight against the extremist group. (Kayhan Ozer/Anadolu Agency via AP, Pool)

L.TODD WOOD: Putin picks off France as an ally

Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin, a master reader of geopolitical tea leaves, just picked off France, one of the largest and most powerful countries in the European Union and a member of NATO, as an ally for Russia in the fight against the Islamic State, and more importantly, Russia's attempt to keep the Assad regime in power. I mean reall, you can't make this stuff up.

November 17, 2015

Calls grow for U.S. to permanently station troops in Eastern Europe

According to many defense officials, arms control experts, and some members of Congress, Russia violated the terms of the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act by supporting the armed aggression in East Ukraine. In their eyes, this Russian behavior negates the need for NATO to follow the agreement as well.

November 16, 2015