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…
Middle East
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…
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…
Weekly Recap: Fumbling Towards War – The US that Never Left Syria
5 September 2015 – Trento, IT by Scott Nicholas Romaniuk The current war in Syria is not a war, yet. Danial Kofman, author of A…
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)…
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…
US juggles the Iran-Saudi Great Game in its fight against ISIS
26 June 2015 – London, UK by Mark Collinson The battle to degrade the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) continues after over a…
DefRep Analysis: A Fractured Iraq cannot take back Iraq
Vancouver, CA CIA Director John Brennan, in an interview to CBS’ Face the Nation, stated that the battle against ISIS will be a “long fight”….
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…
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…
