Recap: “Sleepers” Series is a black mark of the Russian opposition
25 October 2017 – San Francisco, US by Kseniya Kirillova It’s rather difficult to write about the spy series “Sleepers” shown recently on the First Channel, if only because most…
Recap: A Terrible Sinking Feeling – Turkey’s Course Set for Turmoil
8 March 2017 – London, UK by Chris Murray As I watch the only secular democratic state of the Middle East plunge headlong into the abyss I am left with…
Recap: UK’s Labour Party & NATO
23 February 2017 – York, UK by David Heaton The Labour Party opposition in the UK should be in a mood of high confidence. The Conservative Party has been scrambling…
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…
Recap: Canadian Conservatives Stand by Outdated Document, says Bezan
11 March 2016, Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb In a recent op-ed in Embassy News, James Bezan stated that the Conservative Party still stands by their 2008 Canada First Defence…
Canada’s Political Creep: Defining Basic Terminology
by Chris Murray 22 February 2016 – Kingston, CA There seems to have been some confusion of late within the Canadian Government. Apparently the subtlety and nuance of what constitutes…
Happy Holidays from the DefRep team – 2015
Yearly Recap: Happy Holidays from all of us at DefRep 20 December 2015 – Canada, Finland, the US and the UK From everyone at the DefenceReport team, we wish you…
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…
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 Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments…
Weekly Recap: F-35’s gaps can be filled by other aircraft
22 August 2015 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb News about the F-35 seems to be a daily reminder of how it has gone vastly awry. We are reminded that…