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…
Facing West: Russian Forces Facing NATO in the Baltics PART I: Russian Ground/Land Forces
31 August 2016 – Ottawa, CA by Rob O’Gorman, CD As mentioned in an earlier article, the Russian forces facing the Baltic States (incl those NATO forces deployed) are considerable.…
The Evolution of US Joint Operations
30 August 2016 by Scott Nicholas Romaniuk and Tobias Burgers Full Report Joint Operation Doctrines combine all branches of a military’s tactical, operational and strategic capabilites into a fluid form…
