DefRep Analysis: NATO’s continuing war on austerity
22 January 2015 by Chris Murray Recently NATO nations have faced a host of concerns internationally and domestically that have been not only varied but also at times conflicted. So…
DefRep Analysis: Russia looks to improve soft security underbelly that is Central Asia
19 January 2015 – Kingston, CA by Chris Murray On 24 November 2014 a new Abkhaz-Russian treaty was signed with little mainstream media attention in the West. The ‘Alliance and…
DefRep Analysis: NATO’s cyber shift may not link to Article 5
6 January 2015 – Savonlinna, Finland by Timo Mustonen In the midst of SONY hacks and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to the console gaming of Microsoft and Playstation it is…
DefRep Analysis: Let’s Talk Turkey (and NATO)
15 December 2014 – Kingston, CA by Chris Murray On 17 November of this year NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg appointed Turkish Ambassador Ismail Aramaz as the next NATO Senior Civilian…
DefRep Analysis: Grozny under attack to embarrass Putin
7 December 2014 – Kingston, CA by Chris Murray Grozny Attacked Over the past several days news has slowly begun to emerge from Chechnya of significant action between armed militants…
DefRep Analysis: Russia-Ukraine teetering on the edge
15 November 2014 – Kingston, CA by Chris Murray This past week has seen an increase in activity along Ukraine’s eastern border which has NATO again raising concerns of Russian…
DefRep Analysis: Al-Qaeda’s olive branch to ISIS may just be a PR move
2 November 2014 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb Al-Qaeda’s olive branch to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) proved to catch many analysts by surprise. The al-Qaeda…
DefRep Analysis: Order from Chaos – Co-opting irregular movements
24 October 2014 – Kingston, CA by Chris Murray History holds no shortage of examples of states arming rebel factions. These attempts at co-opting rebel groups – harnessing chaos as…
DefRep Analysis: Kashmir conflict flares up again
10 October 2014 – Savonlinna, Finland by Timo Mustonen This Monday saw the most bloody day in over a decade of the crisis over Kashmir area between India and Pakistan.…
DefRep Analysis: Hybrid War – The Ukrainian example
19 September 2014 – Savonlinna, Finland by Timo Mustonen Warfare today is hardly conventional, nor is responding to it any easier. The recent crisis in Ukraine has brought some new…