Book Watch: Inferno in Chechnya: The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings
Review by Chris Murray 2 December 2015, Kingston, CA Inferno in Chechnya: The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings By Brian Glyn Williams; ForeEdge –…
The Russians are Coming: Moscow’s Caucasus Expansion
24 November 2015, Kingston, CA by Chris Murray In the wake of the Paris attacks there has been tremendous scrutiny directed towards how these events will alter the course of…
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…
Iraq and Turkey’s Kurdish dilemma should be addressed now, not after ISIS
13 November 2015 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb Next week the G20 summit will be held in Turkey’s southern city of Antalya. The G20 has begun to tackle other…
Wires Brief: UK’s Bloody Sunday debacle, ISIS attacks Afghanistan, EU migrant report
12 November 2015 – Durham, NC DIGITAL WIRES United Kingdom Infamous ‘Soldier J‘ was released on bail by authorities in Belfast yesterday following his arrest over the wrongful shooting death…
Wires Brief: Pakistan has low-yield nuclear weapons, Canada to call back CF-18s, Russia expands military bases in Arctic
22 October 2015 – Vancouver, CA United Kingdom British industry is now warning that the country’s national security will be at risk if there are any delays to replacing the…
Book Watch: Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands
Review by Chris Murray Kingston, CA Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands By Richard Sakwa; I.B. Tauris, 2015. GBP 18.99 ISBN-10: 1784530646 ISBN-13: 978 1 78453 064 8 The ‘Ukrainian…
Tackling the Technical – a high tech approach to widespread counterinsurgency
12 October 2015 – Espoo, Finland by Timo Mustonen Canada’s military seems to have awaken to the possibilities conducting cyber warfare through equipment hacking. They seek to hire a hacker…
The Russian Intervention in Syria: Where the Major Players now Stand
6 October 2015 – Toronto, CA Eric de Roos These past weeks, the world witnessed one of the most noteworthy events this year in international relations. President Vladimir Putin significantly…
Can Putin’s Russia Really Become a Global Security Actor?
2 October 2015 – Trento, IT by Scott Nicholas Romaniuk Russian President Vladimir Putin has been setting in motion a number of instruments in the past several years to realign…
