Trudeau’s Foreign Affairs Shuffle Aims at Both Putin and Trump
18 January 2017 – Toronto, CA by Alim Jiwa After the election of Donald Trump to the White House, the Trudeau government resolved to ensure that the responsibility for managing…
Shift in Russia’s South Asia Policy: Risks and Implications
23 December 2016 – Jaipur, India by Professor B.M. Jain Russia’s foreign policy under the Putin leadership has undergone a major transformation since Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in…
All Eyes on Al-Bab
22 December 2016 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb As the fighting in Aleppo dwindled down, the next chapter of the Syrian conflict focused on the small city of al-Bab…
Featured Analysis – DAESH in the Digital Age: Online Extremism and the New Terror
12 December 2016 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb For some time many politicians and analysts have been theorizing of what is the next step for the Islamic State of…
Report: Lessons from US Joint Operations (1989-1999)
11 November 2016 by Scott Nicholas Romaniuk and Tobias Burgers Full Report Here The challenge of integrating interagency and multinational partners was a stumbling block for the Afghan Theatre of…
The Bear in the Mountains: Russia’s Balkan Exercise
2 November 2016 – London, UK by Chris Murray On 31 October, the Associated Press reported that Russia will be conducting joint exercises in Serbia with local Serbian and Belarusian…
The Quagmire of the ISIS Foreign Fighter
1 November 2016 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb At the time of writing this, Iraqi forces are preparing to enter the city of Mosul. ISIS-held territory is slowly being…
Facing West: Russian Forces Facing NATO in the Baltics PART II: Russian Air & Air Defence Force
10 September 2016 – Ottawa, CA by Rob O’Gorman, CD Russian air and aerospace defence forces in the Western MD/JSC are well-equipped and at high readiness. As a result of…
Facing West: Russian Forces Facing NATO in the Baltics PART I: Russian Ground/Land Forces
31 August 2016 – Ottawa, CA by Rob O’Gorman, CD As mentioned in an earlier article, the Russian forces facing the Baltic States (incl those NATO forces deployed) are considerable.…
The Evolution of US Joint Operations
30 August 2016 by Scott Nicholas Romaniuk and Tobias Burgers Full Report Joint Operation Doctrines combine all branches of a military’s tactical, operational and strategic capabilites into a fluid form…