Erdoğan’s diminished Turkey faces a questionable future.
21 November 2024 Turkish leader Tayyip Erdoğan’s re-election last year means the 70-year-old President is now serving his last legal term. Questions have been raised about his future and with…
The Canadian Armed Forces is not an emergency disaster relief agency, no matter how much the Government wishes it were so.
20 August 2023 This summer Canada has been utterly pummelled by wildfires. Along with this, Canadians have been inundated with politicians standing in front of disaster relief efforts with sleeves…
Russia introduces thermobaric, lung sucking, munitions
26 February 2022 The introduction of thermobaric weapons in Ukraine is a devastating addition. CNN was the first to observe the introduction of these weapons into Ukraine. Thermobaric weapons are…
DefenceReport Down Time – Back in February
The DefenceReport Team is taking December and January “off”. During that time, we’ll continue to work on the various book and academic projects on our desks, but just need the…
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…
Navy’s Fire Scout UAV compromises BAE’s precision weapons upgrade
Edinburgh, UK – 12 October 2012 By Fiona Pringle Fire Scout UAV problems mark poor start for hi-tech APKWS integration The decision to upgrade the US Navy’s MQ-8B Fire Scout…
DefRep Analysis: Aircraft R&D – A procurement history lesson
30 January 2015 – Kingston, CA By Chris Murray My first class at RMC we studied the aircraft development programs of various countries between the first and second world war.…
DefRep weekly recap: Mohammed Morsi and the darker side of the Muslim Brotherhood
London, UK – 23 November 2012 By Robert Densmore Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood against Egypt’s democracy The most recent efforts to put a peace deal in place between…
Assad must create “Srebrenica” genocide for West to help Syria
London, UK – 16 August 2012 By Marion Ghibaudo Syria’s rebel fighters can not expect assistance in the form of armed intervention from an outside coalition involving the US and…
DefRep weekly recap: David Axe on Korea, the Flame virus and Assad’s latest victims
London, UK – 1 June 2012 DefenceReport staff take on this week’s biggest special operations controversy – defence blogger David Axe’s reporting on a Spec Ops commander’s blunder over US…