British Army Chief Takes Aim at Politicians and the State of Affairs
Outgoing British Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Patrick Sanders, took aim at the British political establishment over the UK’s readiness in the face of a potential large-scale future…
How the Yemeni situation is strengthening Russian Arctic Policy
The Red Sea and the Suez Canal are thousands of kilometres from the Russian Arctic. The chances of Houthi action influencing Russia’s Arctic policy seem as remote as Russia’s vast…
Suicide Boat Drones: an old Houthi weapon returns to the Red Sea
Shortly after the outbreak of the 2023 Israel-Hamas War, the Houthi movement in Yemen offered their support to Hamas. Their support has primarily taken the form of disrupting commercial traffic…
The UK’s Critical Question over Increasing Homelessness among Veterans
The UK faces a critical issue regarding homelessness among veterans. Recent figures released by the Ministry of Defence have indicated that in 2022/23 2,110 households have been affected. This is…
What We Are Watching in 2024
Ukraine The first and most obvious is the war in Ukraine. The battlefield stalemate has left this conflict more volatile. The Russian economy is pivoting towards a war economy and…
I’m being forced to leave Canada and that should worry you
18 December 2023 In the past weeks we have all been confronted with the state of academia. In the US Congress, the presidents of MIT, Harvard, and Penn State were…
Canada is Not Ready for the 21st Century
5 December 2023 Canada is not ready for the world ahead. The military is underfunded and understaffed; the government does not have a foreign policy direction. Moreover, Canadian political discourse…
New Books Network: Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War: Forgotten Fronts – Chris Murray (ed)
Our Associate Editor & Senior Analyst, Dr. Chris Murray, joined the New Books Network – Military History to discuss his recent book (2019) Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War:…
US Nuclear weapons heading for Suffolk, England?
A report by Matt Korda, writing for the Federation of American Scientists, has cast new light upon the possibility of nuclear weapons returning to British shores for the first time…
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…
