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…
Propaganda as a drug – even for Putin’s Russia
29 March 2018 – San Fransisco, US Kseniya Kirillova Recently, Russian propaganda has committed another abomination against the dissident Ilya Yashin and his elderly grandmother. The camera crew “Life” broke…
Wires Brief: EU releases defence Union Action Plan, Laser Buggy downs drones, Saudis accuse Iran of smuggling missiles to Yemen as Houthis fire at Saudi Arabia
28 March 2018 – Cambridge, UK by Robert Grayston United Kingdom As part of the response to the poisoning of Sergei Skripal in the UK, the USA and more than…
Recap: Where, exactly, is the surprise about Russia?
26 March 2018 – New York, US by Victor Rud – Board member of the Ukrainian American Bar Association and Chairman of its Committee on Foreign Affairs Why are we…
Limelight: Canada’s Upcoming Peacekeeping Mission in Mali – CTV News
25 March 2018 – Vancouver, CA I joined CTV National News today to discuss Canada’s upcoming peacekeeping mission in Mali. If the video below does not work, a link can…
Wires Brief: US looks to put lasers in the air, Israel admits to Syrian nuclear reactor airstrike, India defends decision to buy home-grown aircraft
21 March 2018 – Cambridge, UK by Robert Grayston United Kingdom BAE Systems has launched the Type 31 frigate design proposal for export, having “already got interest from two South…
Skrypal’s assassination attempt paid off for the Kremlin
21 March 2018 – San Francisco, US by Kseniya Kirillova The attempt on the life of the former GRU Colonel Sergey Skrypal added a new round of confrontation in the…
