Situational Brief: Russian Recent Deployments Opposite Ukraine and What It Could Mean For Christmas
Situational Brief: Russian Recent Deployments Opposite Ukraine and What It Could Mean For Christmas Tensions in and around Ukraine and Russian occupied Crimea have increased since the 25th November 2018, Sea of Azov incident when Russia seized by force three Ukrainian naval vessels and shut down shipping traffic to Ukraine in the Sea of Azov. In recent days, US Special Representative to Ukraine Ambassador Kurt Volker warned that Russia had again built-up forces on the border.
ZAPAD-18 The Russian Bear is Back
Zapad-18 is the largest Russian wargame since Zapad-81 and involves some 300,000 personnel, 1,000 aircraft, 36,000 vehicles, and an unknown number of warships, along with Chinese and Mongolian forces. The exercises will range from the Western edge of Russia all the way back through the Urals to the Pacific with the Central and Eastern Military Districts bearing the brunt of the activity to simulate a NATO attack on Russia and Russia’s counter-attack. The exercises will begin
Zapad Ends But Beware of The Russian Bear
Beware of the Russian Bear Now that Russia’s massive 100,000-man Zapad or “West” wargame with Belarus have come to an end, and other exercises across Russia are winding down, there are two events worth noting in the nuclear weapons realm that relate to Mr. Putin’s overall military strategy. In the first noteworthy event, during the Zapad exercises geared to simulate war with NATO, Russia test-fired its road-mobile, nuclear-capable, SS-26 Iskander-M Short Range Ballistic Missi
War on Terror Continues, as Europe Fears Invasion and Asia Heats Up With More Threats From Kim Jong-
In the war on terror, a record 379 terror arrests were made in the UK in the last year with dozens coming after the Islamic State (ISIS) London and Manchester attacks. In Africa on Wednesday, US forces in Somalia conducted three precision airstrikes against al-Qaeda aligned al-Shabab, killing six terrorists. This is the third in a series of Somalia strikes this month and what appears to be a ramping-up of action against al-Shabab. Elsewhere in Africa, a girl with a bomb stra
September 9th and September 11th Anniversaries to be Key Dates for North Korea and Islamic Terror
In the third part of an English-language series on the Islamic State (ISIS) media channel, Furat Wilayah, promoting lone-wolf jihad style attacks, the terror group has called on its supporters to use cyanide to poison food in Western grocery stores. Additionally, a recent ISIS video shows elderly jihadis teaching young orphans to be suicide bombers. Furthermore, ISIS Supporters are said to be celebrating Hurricane Irma on social media as “this is the Reward of Your Crimes Aga
Canadians Need to be Vigilant to the Threat Posed by Islamic State-Inspired Terror Ahead of Canada D
Canadians Need to be Vigilant to the Threat Posed by Islamic State-Inspired Terror Ahead of Canada Day Long Weekend. The Islamic terrorist threat continues a global scale, and in Canada, as we approach the Canada Day weekend and Canadians should remain vigilant. As a reminder of the danger posed Islamic-inspired extremism, a 32-year-old Toronto woman, Rehab Dughmosh, has been charged with uttering death threats while armed with a knife at a Canadian Tire store at Scarborough’
ISIS Belgium Based Francophone Attack Cell or ISIS-Inspired ‘Lone Wolf’
ISIS Belgium Based Francophone Attack Cell or ISIS-Inspired ‘Lone Wolf’ A US police officer has been critically wounded after being stabbed in the neck at Bishop international airport, in Michigan, the area has been evacuated. The attacker is under arrest and there are unconfirmed reports that the individual shouted “Allahu Akbar." A terrorist was fatally shot by Belgian soldiers at Brussels Central Train Station on Tuesday after a failed bombing. Belgian police evacuated the
A Snapshot of Terrorism this Week in Europe
In terms of terrorist attacks and plots in Europe, a survey of the last week would seem illustrative of a continuing and dangerous trend as the Islamic States comes under pressure and pending defeat in Syria and Iraq. But Islamic State and Islamic-inspired terror was not the only culprit in increased European insecurity with terror plots represented by both right and left-wing terror groups, long a feature of Cold War-era terror on the continent. In United Kingdom, security s
Russia's Information Warfare Operations Starts Fake News. Can Trudeau Stand Up to It?
Can Prime Minister Justin Trudeau straighten the spine of what is usually an invertebrate government in the likely face of Russian information warfare operations in response to the deployment of a Canadian battlegroup to Latvia in the coming days. The “fake news” stories about Canadians and their Baltic tour is likely to be legendary and infamous. Russian Defense Minister, Sergei K. Shoigu, told the Russian Duma on Wednesday that the military had mobilized a special task for
Mr. Trudeau, Canada needs F-35s to deter Russian nuclear warfighting strategy
Mr. Trudeau, what do you want intercepting and deterring nuclear-armed Russian strategic bombers in the Canadian North? A fifth-generation fighter aircraft in the F-35, loaded with sensors, that can operate with our American, Danish and Norwegian allies, and can drop anything in the sky, or F-18 Super Hornets rapidly approaching their best before date? In Russian war fighting nuclear doctrine that escalates to the use of nuclear weapons, to de-escalate from a war or pending
