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Obama offers some humility; this can be a good thing
By Zachary Wolfraim: President Obama sought to outline a vision for US foreign policy in his commencement speech to West Point graduates on 28 May and once more highlighted the role of American...
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Canada’s NATO response: A missed opportunity
By Zachary Wolfraim: Meetings of the Defence Ministers at NATO Headquarters in Brussels – Meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission (NUC) (Source: Reuters) Earlier this May I analysed Canada’s tentative...
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Which Canada are we talking about?
By Zachary Wolfraim: In light of this week’s horrible attacks in Ottawa and St-Jean-sur-Richelieu there has been some commentary in the Canadian media declaring that this would not change Canada. The...
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Putting ‘brains on the ground’: why is Britain sending military advisors to...
By Thomas Colley: David Cameron with President Poroshenko of Ukraine at the NATO Summit in Wales, September 2014. Photo: Paul Shaw / Crown copyright (CC 2.0) One month after the US announced its...
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Russia and the World following Ukraine: A Strife 4-part series
By Sebastian Åsberg: Ukrainean tanks taking up positions in the city of Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, July 2014. Photo: Sasha Maksymenko (CC 2.0) “At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a...
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After Ukraine, Part III – Polish security & Russian aggression: the return of...
By Andrzej Kozłowski: A Polish Leopard II tank takes up a position during Exercise Steadfast Jazz, a joint training operation for NATO forces, November 2013. Photo: Cpl. Madis Veltman / Estonian army...
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After Ukraine, Part IV – NATO in Scandinavia: Will Sweden and Finland join up?
By Sebastian Åsberg: Swedish and Finnish forces joined NATO forces in 2013 to carry out the large-scale training exercise “Steadfast Jazz”. Photo: Polish army Master Sgt. Artur Zakrzewski/Poland (CC...
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Teasing the bear: NATO, Russia and the Baltic States
By Leyla Aliyeva: Latvian tanks in operation during NATO Operation Sabre Strike, 2013. Photo: Gatis Diezins, RYC (CC 2.0). Russia’s President Putin statement a fortnight ago made on a conference with...
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NATO, State (Re)emergence, and Military Capabilities and Commitments: the...
By: Alex Calvo USS John Fitzerald Kennedy entering Tarragona Harbour in 2002. The city could be an alternative to Rota as a home port for the US Navy missile defence destroyers in the Mediterranean....
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The Question of Limited Intervention in Syria: ‘And Then What?’
By: Alexander Decina NATO-backed Patriot missile defence systems set up in Gaziantep, Turkey, February 4, 2013. Picture used under Creative Commons License. Given the atrocities witnessed during the...
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The future of European defence: An interview with Daniel Keohane
Daniel Keohane interviewed by Annabelle Vuille Leaders gather for a photo at the February 2016 meeting of the European Council. Source: Wikimedia Annabelle Vuille: What would you say are the most...
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Polska Walcząca: Poland and the United States at NATO
By: Jackson Webster Source: Reuters, via Voice of America On July 8th, heads-of-state and government figures from the 28 member-states of the world’s strongest military alliance will meet in the...
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The time has come to revoke Turkey’s NATO membership (but offer it a lifeline)
By: Austin Luce Source: Wikimedia The idea of removing Turkey from the ranks of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would send shockwaves through the international community. Never before has the...
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Book Review: “What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?”
Reviewed by: Millie Radovic Gurcan, Metin. What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?: Understanding Counter-Insurgency Efforts in Tribalized Rural and Muslim Environments. Helion and Company, 2016. ISBN:...
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Dice, Hexes & History: Can Wargaming Save Estonia?
By Camlo Kalandra Source: David A. Shlapak and Michael Johnson. Reinforcing Deterrence on NATO’s Eastern Flank: Wargaming the Defense of the Baltics. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2016. A new...
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Strife Feature | Contemporary Russian foreign policy – Examining the Ukraine...
By William Moray The 2014 Ukrainian Revolution – or Revolution of Dignity – and the subsequent Donbass War (Donbas, in Ukrainian) severely impacted the relations Russia held not only with Ukraine but...
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The Future of European Defence Cooperation: a win-win for Transatlantic security
By Bolton Smith and Gabriel White Mali – Barkhane French operation, part of the ‘War against Terrorism’. Photo: Fred Marie (CC 2.0) Any mention of independent European defence efforts usually raises...
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NATO is wounded, this Summit could break it
By Dr Zachary Wolfraim NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ahead of the Summit (Credit Image: NATO HQ) In light of the recent chaos consuming British politics and the looming NATO summit, I...
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Europe’s Greatest Gamblers: Anticipating Wars of the Future and Why European...
Anticipating war is out of fashion, yet the potential destruction and impact on global society of a major war are huge. By James M R Thorp Soldiers from Poland’s 6th Airborne Brigade and the U.S....
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EU Foreign Policy: More Grand Delusion than Grand Strategy
by Eliz Peck 24 May 2019 German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron after the signing of a new Germany-France friendship treaty at the historic Town Hall in Aachen, Germany on...
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