Mark Collins – RCAF Chinook Helos for UN Peacekeeping Mali? Canadian Army?

Canadian door gunners take position on a CH-146 Griffon helicopter as they fly over neighbourhood in Kandahar prov.,Afghanistan, Mar27,2009. pic.twitter.com/MY1Wt2kCga

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Mark Collins – En Flipping Fin: India Signs to buy 36 French Rafale Fighters

Further to this July post, “Absurd”: Continuing India/France Rafale Fighter Buy Balls-Up, Part 2 (plus Gripen) this seemingly almost endless Indian procurement saga (ring any bells in the Great Whi…

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Mark Collins – “A Peek into French Signals Intelligence”–with a Canada/CSE Angle

Very interesting, will our media notice what’s at 2.? France’s former top SIGINT spy confirms an advanced persistent threat and muses about a merger with German intelligence [the foreign inte…

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Mark Collins – US Allies: “No” to No US Nuke First Use (Obama to Announce?)

Some friends are getting nervous they might be left in the deterrent lurch and lots of leaking is going on (current NATO policy, for its part, on nuclear weapons’ use is not terribly clear): …

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Mark Collins – Mosques: French Crackdown on Foreign Funding (Canada/Saudis?)

France can be tough: To curb radicalism, France targets foreign funding for mosques After three major terrorist attacks in the last year and a half, public outrage has forced the French government …

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Mark Collins – France vs Islamist Terrorism: “Merciless”

Further to this post, Fighting Islamist Terrorism: A Darker Future for Freedom? also sprach Sarko: Islamists attack French church, slit priest’s throat … MERCILESS …former preside…

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Mark Collins – ISIS Having Hard Time in Libya/Three French SOF Killed

The latest at Defense One’s “D-Brief”–note French, British, US special forces on the ground, NATO not planning combat involvement but… … ISIS’ grip in Libya is f…

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