Balkan instability continues to centre on Serbians and Western neglect.
21 August 2025 It is no secret that I think the road to European security runs through the Balkans. The greatest issue facing European security lies here, and central to…
Trump’s India-Pakistan realignment will have international ramifications
13 August 2025 Pakistani Field Marshal Asim Munir spoke at a black-tie dinner hosted by a Pakistani-origin businessman in Florida on Saturday. There were close to 100 people at the…
Rock to Chips: Ensuring continued Canadian Prosperity
Two reports released this year – AI 2027 and Future Lives: Social Mobility in Question – deserve far more attention than they’ve received. Alongside Could Canada Be a Failed State?…
China Targets the French Rafale Globally after Operation Sindoor
The latest India-Pakistan conflict is continuing, but it is in a very different form. French intelligence claims that Chinese embassies are working on discrediting the French Rafale fighter and attempting…
Iran Will Look Toward Africa to Rebuild Post-Ceasefire
26 June 2025 It has been a wild few days in the Middle East. As soon as a ceasefire was announced, Israel and Iran traded missiles, and the re-announced ceasefire…
The Quiet Axis & Iran threatens to close off the Strait of Hormuz
Axios reports the U.S. and Israel cooperated in the bunker-buster airstrikes against the Fordow nuclear site. At request of Trump, the Israeli Air Force took out multiple Iranian air-defense systems…
Trump mulls intervention – but it is Israel-Iran capacity game until then
As Donald Trump mulls over the US striking Iran, the question is whether the conflict can continue for another two weeks. To dismantle Iran’s nuclear development, three nuclear facilities need…
Goal posts moving: Carney & NATO’s 2%
The Canadian government, under Prime Minister Mark Carney, unveiled a defence policy bombshell. It has been pledged that the Canadian government will reach its 2% commitment of GDP to defence…
UK-EU Deal: Is the UK back at the heart of EU defence?
23 May 2025 Much has been made of the UK-EU deal announced this week. Depending on where you sit on the still very active Brexit spectrum of political discourse, this…
The Price of Sovereignty: Increasing Europe’s Defence Spending
This year has proved dramatic for Europe’s leadership. Despite ample warnings from the Trump administration and its surrogates about a pivot away from long-standing security commitments in Europe to focus…