Shift in Russia’s South Asia Policy: Risks and Implications
23 December 2016 – Jaipur, India by Professor B.M. Jain Russia’s foreign policy under the Putin leadership has undergone a major transformation since Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in…
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…
Featured Analysis – DAESH in the Digital Age: Online Extremism and the New Terror
12 December 2016 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb For some time many politicians and analysts have been theorizing of what is the next step for the Islamic State of…
Book Watch: All Behind You, Winston: Churchill’s Great Coalition 1940-45
Review by Chris Murray 30 November 2016 – London, UK All Behind You, Winston: Churchill’s Great Coalition 1940-45 By Roger Hermiston; Aurum Press, 2016. GBP £20.00 ISBN-10: 1781313318 ISBN-13: 978-1781313312…
Report: Lessons from US Joint Operations (1989-1999)
11 November 2016 by Scott Nicholas Romaniuk and Tobias Burgers Full Report Here The challenge of integrating interagency and multinational partners was a stumbling block for the Afghan Theatre of…
The Bear in the Mountains: Russia’s Balkan Exercise
2 November 2016 – London, UK by Chris Murray On 31 October, the Associated Press reported that Russia will be conducting joint exercises in Serbia with local Serbian and Belarusian…
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: How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
Review by Chris Murray 10 October 2016 – London, UK How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon By Rosa Brooks; Simon & Schuster, 2016.…
Facing West: Russian Forces Facing NATO in the Baltics PART II: Russian Air & Air Defence Force
10 September 2016 – Ottawa, CA by Rob O’Gorman, CD Russian air and aerospace defence forces in the Western MD/JSC are well-equipped and at high readiness. As a result of…
