Turkey’s Nearing Elections Present Challenges for NATO
1 February 2022 Turkey faces a general election in May that holds the potential to end Erdoğan’s two-decade grip on the country. This is of major significance to Turkey’s often-neglectful…
Book Watch: The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War
Review by John A. Pennell 11 January 2017 – Kyiv, Ukraine The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War (PenguinRandomHouse: New York, NY, USA, 2016) by Arkady Ostrovsky. USD…
The UK can’t stay ‘mum’ over Russian bombing of Special Forces base in Syria
Russia’s recent bombing of a Syrian base used by UK and US Special Forces exposes the flaws with the UK’s blanket “no comment” approach. 3 August 2016 – London, UK…
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…
DefRep Analysis: ISIS shows signs of internal rifts
6 August 2015 – Vancouver, CA by Stewart Webb Videos of executions broadcasted in gruesome detail is nothing new for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). In late…
The Weekly Recap: Russia and the Syrian militant spillover
7 December 2013 – Ottawa, CA by Stewart Webb Fifteen Islamists were arrested last week in Moscow. In their possession were explosives, guns, ammunition, grenades and extremist literature. With the Winter…
Assad must create “Srebrenica” genocide for West to help Syria
London, UK – 16 August 2012 By Marion Ghibaudo Syria’s rebel fighters can not expect assistance in the form of armed intervention from an outside coalition involving the US and…