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…
Turkey’s Troublesome Times Continuing with No End in Sight
20 December 2016 – London, UK by Chris Murray It feels like only moments ago that Defence Report was analysing the attempted coup in Turkey. July does not feel a…
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…
Book Watch: Irregular War: ISIS and the New Threat from the Margins
Review by Chris Murray 26 July 2016, Kingston, CA Irregular War: ISIS and the New Threat from the Margins By Paul Rogers; I.B.Tauris, 2016. USD 29.95 ISBN-10: 1784534889 ISBN-13: 978-1784534882…
What Happened in Turkey
25 July 2016, Kingston, CA by Chris Murray The world was caught surprised by the attempted coup in Turkey. While Turkey has had relatively frequent interaction with coups since the…
Book Watch: From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy
Review by Stewart Webb 19 December 2015 – Vancouver, CA From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy by Jean-Pierre Filiu – Oxford University Press,…
Book Watch: Inferno in Chechnya: The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings
Review by Chris Murray 2 December 2015, Kingston, CA Inferno in Chechnya: The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings By Brian Glyn Williams; ForeEdge –…
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…
Recap – In the shadow of Paris: our next step will define a generation
17 November 2015 – York, UK by David Heaton, DefRep Guest Writer Paris was attacked in one of the most devastating terror attacks Western Europe has seen, and indeed the…
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…