Wires Brief: German air force critically weak; Russian defence spending drops; Trump wants a ‘space force’; Israel claims Iran had nuclear weapons program
3 May 2018 – Cambridge, UK by Robert Grayston United Kingdom Issues around overseas companies gaining access to Royal Naval tenders has led to questions being asked on the government’s…
Russian Policy Forum in the US: Keeping Criticism Away
1 May 2018 – San Francisco, US by Kseniya Kirillova Recently, the largest American newspaper Newsweek has published an article devoted to the former Soviet dissident, and now the head…
The Kremlin Guard: Russia’s Pro-Government Youth Organizations
30 April 2018 – San Francisco, US by Ksenia Kirillova The leader of the Young Guard of United Russia Denis Davydov announced that this organization plans to create groups to…
Wires Brief: German military spending to increase, Saudis pressure Qatar, Pakistani army chief visits Moscow
26 April 2018 – Cambridge, UK by Robert Grayston United Kingdom The UK’s adoption of the Boxer AFV without competition has been questioned by a parliamentary committee. The Ministry of…
A Killing Epidemic: The Culling of Russian Media Opponents
20 April 2018 – San Francisco, US by Kseniya Kirillova When I was working on the story of the attempted poisoning of former Colonel GRU Sergey Skripal in the English…
Realistically, the US can’t impose sanctions on India for buying Russian military equipment
20 April 2018 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb Admiral Philip S. Davidson testified in front of the US Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday. Admiral Davidson has been nominated to…
Wires Brief: Joint UK-French-US strike on Syria, Germany blames Russia over cyber-attack, US tries to forge new Arab-state alliance for Syrian deployment
18 April 2018 – Cambridge, UK by Robert Grayston United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May authorised the use of British military forces along with French and US allies in an…
Wires Brief: Possible Western intervention on Syria, Franco-German combat aircraft programme to go ahead, Rockets over Riyadh
12 April 2018 – Cambridge, UK by Robert Grayston United Kingdom It is possible that the Prime Minister Theresa May could back UK action in Syria, though probably not without…
Wires Brief: Russian conducts live-fire Baltic exercises, US commits to further Syrian deployments, Turkey, Russia and Iran discuss Syria
5 April 2018 – Cambridge, UK by Robert Grayston United Kingdom The origin of the nerve agent used in the attempted assassination of Sergei Skrypal cannot be verified, after the…
ISIS in Afghanistan is Moving North, Not South
4 April 2018 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb Afghanistan has seen a dramatic increase in Taliban and ISIS attacks in the past month. The country has also been the…
