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The Three Dictateers
https://images.app.goo.gl/htpzw3n3u6QfwsoR9 I do not easily subscribe to the idea that men/women make history. I am much more at home...
Jan 29, 2020


Ciber-Especulación
Foto de Buenos Aires el 16 de junio, disponible en la página web de Desdémona Despairs. El “apagón” en el sur de Sudamérica El 16 de...
Aug 8, 2019


Cyber-Speculation
Photo of Buenos Aires on 16 June, available on website of Desdemona Despairs The Meltdown in the South American South On 16 June, almost...
Jul 9, 2019


¡Como No Derrocar a un Dictador!
Foto: Los presidentes de Cuba y de Venezuela, Miguel Díaz-Canel y Nicolás Maduro (Cortesía de Nuestro País) Es bastante claro, por ahora,...
Jun 10, 2019


On Dumping a Dictator
The Cuban and Venezuelan-Presidents, Miguel Díaz-Canel y Nicolás Maduro (courtesy of NUESTRO PAÍS) It is fairly clear now that despite...
May 30, 2019


Defending Canada in a Changing Strategic Environment
Photo: Courtesy of Bing and Business Insider Recently, Canada has been challenged by three countries that were hitherto considered either...
Mar 31, 2019


Towards Yalta Two
1024px-Yalta_Conference_(Churchill,_Roosevelt,_Stalin)_(B&W) This blog was posted on the CDA-Institute at https://cdainstitute.ca/law-tow...
Aug 1, 2018


What if (almost all) the Experts on North Korea have Got it Wrong?
(An earlier version of this draft was posted on the website of the Canadian Defence Association Institute on 15 May 2018 at...
Jun 9, 2018


Global Futures and their Underlying Drivers
(The view of the globe is from The Great Globe Galley.) On June 21 2018, the TopLink site of the Word Economic Forum posted a sightly...
Mar 22, 2018


North Korea 101
(With my apologies to the person who produced this juxtaposition – I have lost the link and cannot credit you.) This post appeared on the...
Feb 11, 2018


The Almost Perfect Ploy: how to understand the accelerated enhancement of the North Korean threat: P
This article was posted on the website of the Canadian Defence Association Institute on 19 September 2018. Photocredit: Time Magazine 20...
Sep 27, 2017


The Almost Perfect Ploy: how to understand the accelerated enhancement of the North Korean threat: P
Photo credit: Daily Telegraph, 31 August 2017. This blog was posted on the website of the Canadian Defence Association Institute on 14...
Sep 26, 2017


North Korea: rethinking the threat, one week on
The situation is indeed serious, but don’t expect Kim Jong-un to go over the strategic edge. (This blog appeared on the website of...
Aug 16, 2017


NORTH KOREA – HIGH TIME TO GET REAL, PART I
On America’s Independence Day, North Korea successfully launched a missile that some experts assert can hit targets as far away as...
Jul 31, 2017


NORTH KOREA – HIGH TIME TO GET REAL, PART II
So for Kim Jung-un, or Kim the Third as I have called him, the support for his regime from Beijing and Moscow is absolutely...
Jul 20, 2017


The Gathering Storm
With Donald Trump now sworn in as the American President and Commander–in-Chief, here are some thoughts on where the world may be headed....
Jan 23, 2017


Ukraine and the Sino-Russian Relationship
This piece served as the basis for a presentation transmitted via Skype from Kiev, Ukraine to Kingston, Canada for a conference organized...
Jun 30, 2016


Ukraine and the Sino-Russian Relationship
How will the relationship between Russia and China affect the future trajectory of Ukraine? This article will appear in a book on the...
Jun 13, 2016


Reflections on the Sino-Russian Relationship
This article originally appeared at http://www.cdainstitute.ca/images/on_track/On_Track_Winter_2016/On_Track_20.3_-_Law.pdf Whither the...
Feb 20, 2016


Russia, Syria, Ukraine – and the Rest of the World
Putin’s objectives in Syria have as much or more to do with Russian concerns about developments in the former Soviet Union as with the...
Oct 21, 2015
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