Start of Ramadan Amid A Series of Terror and International Security Challenges
Start of Ramadan Amid A Series of Terror and International Security Challenges With Ramadan upon us, Islam-inspired terror is not the only security threat facing Canada, the US, and NATO. The United Kingdom has reduced its threat level from critical back to severe. While British security services believe an attack is in the future they do not believe it is imminent. The British government has announced that Operation Temperer involving 1000 British soldiers supporting police
China is Using North Korean Crisis to Its Advantage in the South China Sea
China is Using North Korean Crisis to Its Advantage in the South China Sea North Korea has named its new Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) the Hwasong-12 (KN-17) according to Korean Central News Agency, and said that it can carry a "large scale heavy nuclear warhead." Yesterday Japanese Self Defense Forces clocked the missile as traveling about 500 miles and reaching a height of 1240 miles during a half-hour successful test-flight. If it had been fired at an optimal
NORTH KOREA MAY SHOW RUSSIA’S STRATEGIC IRRELEVANCE TO PACIFIC GREAT AND REGIONAL POWER POLITICS
The stand-off between North Korea and the US continues on the rhetorical plain, with the North poised to set off its sixth nuclear explosion, potentially a thermonuclear one, and the US directing three Carrier Strike Groups, the USS Carl Vinson, the USS Ronald Reagan, and the USS Nimitz into the Sea of Japan next week. The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party warned the US yesterday, "In the case of our super-mighty preemptive strike be
The best place in the world to use Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) to target the Unite
Things are about to heat up in the South China Sea and the Trudeau government is going to need to be on the side of law and the side of right. The Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces need to start identifying what ships we are going to dispatch with U.S. carrier groups transiting and patrolling the region to exercise freedom of navigation. Yesterday we looked at why China was tiring of North Korea’s antics, and it is because China has strategic interests of its
CONTAINMENT BACK: NORTH KOREA, CHINA, IRAN, RUSSIA BACK IN YOUR BOX!
It is easy for political leaders to downplay strategic-military threats that do not match their own view of the world or the political narrative of the time. The national security apparatus in western democracies plays along because we rightly have civilian control of the military. President Obama's draw-down in Iraq, even though the intelligence warned otherwise, led to the unabated rise of the Islamic State, and that has now, spread like a malignant tumour around the globe.
WHO WILL TEST TRUMP FIRST?
Who Will Test Trump First? Russia, Iran, and North Korea Rush to Beat China to the Punch Almost two weeks now into the Trump Presidency and it appears to be a competition to see who will test the United States on the foreign relations and national security front first. Conventional wisdom is that China is very good at using an opponent's complacency to test a new President of the United States. In fine tradition, China is usually the first power to do so, but this time it see
