DefRep Analysis: Grozny under attack to embarrass Putin
7 December 2014 – Kingston, CA by Chris Murray Grozny Attacked Over the past several days news has slowly begun to emerge from Chechnya of significant action between armed militants…
Book Watch: The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin by Gordon M. Hahn
Kingston, CA The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia’s North Caucasus and Beyond By Gordon M. Hahn; McFarland Publishing, 2014. USD 45.00 pISBN: 978-0-7864-7952-8 eISBN: 978-1-4766-1495-3 In October 2007,…
Weekly Recap: Step Aside Fantino, this is not just your problem
Vancouver, CA One has to wonder what is going on in Canada. The Department of Veterans Affairs has made a bungle of its portfolio. The Department of National Defence continues…
The Weekly Recap: Channeling the Chief
Ottawa, CA With his political career in question, the only thing that may save Minister of Veterans Affairs Julian Fantino is himself. It would be hard to imagine that things…
DefRep Analysis: Russia-Ukraine teetering on the edge
15 November 2014 – Kingston, CA by Chris Murray This past week has seen an increase in activity along Ukraine’s eastern border which has NATO again raising concerns of Russian…
DefRep Analysis: Al-Qaeda’s olive branch to ISIS may just be a PR move
2 November 2014 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb Al-Qaeda’s olive branch to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) proved to catch many analysts by surprise. The al-Qaeda…
DefRep Analysis: Order from Chaos – Co-opting irregular movements
24 October 2014 – Kingston, CA by Chris Murray History holds no shortage of examples of states arming rebel factions. These attempts at co-opting rebel groups – harnessing chaos as…
Weekly Recap: Let’s Continue to Underestimate ISIS
18 October 2014 – Vancouver, CA by Scott Nicholas Romaniuk and Stewart Webb President Obama’s 2009 Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), a supposed rationalizing of his predecessor’s so-called “Global War on…
DefRep Analysis: Kashmir conflict flares up again
10 October 2014 – Savonlinna, Finland by Timo Mustonen This Monday saw the most bloody day in over a decade of the crisis over Kashmir area between India and Pakistan.…
DefRep Analysis: Hybrid War – The Ukrainian example
19 September 2014 – Savonlinna, Finland by Timo Mustonen Warfare today is hardly conventional, nor is responding to it any easier. The recent crisis in Ukraine has brought some new…
