Terrible Terry Glavin roars his rage; amongst other things he excoriates feckless and irrelevant Canadian word-mongering at the UN General Assembly–an excerpt: … The truth of it is we’d…
Source: Mark Collins – “The fall of Aleppo shows us exactly what we have become”
Will not be posting December 19/January 1 but will be tweeting. Mark Collins, a prolific Ottawa blogger, is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute; he tweets @Mark3Ds
Source: Mark Collins – Christmas/New Year Blogging Break (but not tweeting)
A tweet–US$, Canada steady at no. 15 (what do we buy–only part of defence spending–for it?): Mark Collins, a prolific Ottawa blogger, is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs In…
This should sure get the attention of PEOTUS Trump–the rest of the headline: …as an arms race heats up in Asia. China’s defense spending will balloon to $233 billion in 2020, up f…
Just read between the bureaucratese at this report, damning stuff. The previous Conservative government cared little for this core federal responsibility; what about the new one? Not a sunny subjec…
Source: Mark Collins – Public Safety Canada’s Emergency Management May Suck
Further to this post in May, the head of US Pacific Command is at it again, note my italics–one would have thought such statements should be for civilian policy makers (in any event President…
Source: Mark Collins – South China Sea: Why is USN Admiral Leading on US Policy vs China? Part 2
Terrible Terry Glavin roars his rage; amongst other things he excoriates feckless and irrelevant Canadian word-mongering at the UN General Assembly–an excerpt: … The truth of it is we’d…
Source: Mark Collins – “The fall of Aleppo shows us exactly what we have become”
I guess the world does need more Canada; who’d a thunk him, eh? The prime minister is in “the decision-makers”. I didn’t notice any Canadians in the other categories. Mark…
Source: Mark Collins – PM Justin Trudeau Makes Foreign Policy’s “leading global thinkers of 2016”
The start and end of a book review by Matthew Fisher, a rare Canadian journalist who is actually interested in matters military and has a real understanding of them–and note the deleterious r…
Source: Mark Collins – SNAFU, or, Canadian Defence Procurement
This murderous terrorism, Istanbul bombing: Terror attack death toll rises to 38 including 30 police as officials accuse PKK PKK blamed for attack which is the latest in an escalating scale of viol…
Source: Mark Collins – Sublime Erdogan the Magnificent vs the Kurds (plus ISIS/Syria)
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