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…
Wires Brief: MoD unveils mental illness stats, NATO halves Baltic air mission, Power struggle within Taliban and Afghan government starting
5 August 2015 – London, UK Digital wires United Kingdom DefRep’s recent discovery of an FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request filled by the UK MoD has revealed the number…
Weekly Recap: Having no Russia might be more dangerous
26 Jul 2015, Kingston, CA by Chris Murray Since the startling events in Crimea early in 2014 Russia has been front and centre in Western discourse. A tremendous effort has…
DefRep Weekly Recap: How Just or Unjust was NATO’s 2011 Libya Campaign
17 July 2015 – Toronto, CA By A. Walter Dorn The full academic article by A. Wedgwood and A. W. Dorn, “NATO’s Libya Campaign 2011: Just or Unjust to What…
Weekly Recap: Why aren’t we talking about Ukraine – Part Three
8 July 2015 – Kingston, CA by Chris Murray Leadership and Messaging Some have argued that Prim Minister Harper’s visit to Ukraine was an empty gesture. This is likely a…
Weekly Recap: Why aren’t we talking about Ukraine – Part Two
7 July 2015 – Kingston, CA by Chris Murray Lackluster Response The Canadian Prime Minister is, generally speaking, a rather silly character on the international stage and his position on…
Weekly Recap: Why aren’t we talking about Ukraine – Part One
6 July 2015 – Kingston, CA by Chris Murray Ukraine, What’s Really Going On A few weeks back Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephan Harper, paid a visit to Ukraine. The visit…
DefRep Analysis: Erdoğan’s slide
10 June 2015 – Kingston, CA by Chris Murray and Stewart Webb Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) suffered a major set back in Turkey’s most…
The Weekly Recap: Could the Greens save the Canadian Forces
With an election looming, federal party websites are woefully short on their visions for the Canadian Armed Forces… with one exception: The Green Party. 1 June 2015 – Ottawa, CA…
Book Watch: Air Power in UN Operations: Wings for Peace edited by Professor Walter Dorn
Review by Stewart Webb Vancouver, CA Air Power in UN Operations: Wings for Peace Edited by A. Walter Dorn; Ashgate Publishing, 2014 The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations is…