The Russians are Coming: Moscow’s Caucasus Expansion
24 November 2015, Kingston, CA by Chris Murray In the wake of the Paris attacks there has been tremendous scrutiny directed towards how these events will alter the course of…
Iraq and Turkey’s Kurdish dilemma should be addressed now, not after ISIS
13 November 2015 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb Next week the G20 summit will be held in Turkey’s southern city of Antalya. The G20 has begun to tackle other…
Tackling the Technical – a high tech approach to widespread counterinsurgency
12 October 2015 – Espoo, Finland by Timo Mustonen Canada’s military seems to have awaken to the possibilities conducting cyber warfare through equipment hacking. They seek to hire a hacker…
The Russian Intervention in Syria: Where the Major Players now Stand
6 October 2015 – Toronto, CA Eric de Roos These past weeks, the world witnessed one of the most noteworthy events this year in international relations. President Vladimir Putin significantly…
Can Putin’s Russia Really Become a Global Security Actor?
2 October 2015 – Trento, IT by Scott Nicholas Romaniuk Russian President Vladimir Putin has been setting in motion a number of instruments in the past several years to realign…
Iraq’s Success lays with Civil-Military Relations Reforms
25 September 2015 – Toronto, CA by Eric de Roos Overview What initially surprised many analysts and commentators during the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham’s (ISIS) rapid incursion into…
Dear US: About Iraq, please take a lesson or two from Mali
1 September 2015 – Toronto, CA by Eric de Roos As the US-led coalition attempts to degrade the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) insurgent group, it would be…
Symptoms of Tech Addition: Small Arms
21 August 2015, Kingston, CA by Chris Murray The Kalashnikov, the most ubiquitous item on any modern battlefield. A product of Soviet obsession with the KISS rule, it is beyond…
Operational Holes: CAS and the Disaster in the Making
In recent months there has been a multitude of articles dealing with the many issues surrounding the F-35. The pile on has come from the exorbitant cost, severe shortcomings, and…
DefRep Analysis: ISIS shows signs of internal rifts
6 August 2015 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb Videos of executions broadcasted in gruesome detail is nothing new for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). In late…