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La Primavera de Praga, medio siglo después
Foto del periódico ruso Kommersant en el quincuagésimo aniversario de la invasión a Checoslovaquia por el Pacto de Varsovia. (este blog...
Aug 26, 2018


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


NATO Defence Spending in Perspective
(A link to this article was provided in the Newsletter of the Canadian Association of Defence Organizations on 6 July:...
Jul 6, 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


Descent into Dictatorship?
America’s descent into chaos moved into a higher gear this past week. It will take a lot of civil courage on the part of a lot of...
Aug 17, 2017


President Trump in Europe: how to discredit and dismantle an Alliance
At the G20 Summit that took place in Hamburg on 7-8 July, Presidents Putin and Trump met on at least three occasions. Two of them were...
Aug 3, 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


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


R2P and the Responsibility to Receive
In 2005, a UN World Summit that brought together governmental leaders from around the world agreed on a statement that broke new ground...
Sep 30, 2015


Knocking on the Door of World War IV
Introduction[1] The world is on a precipice. The international community faces a growing array of situations that could precipitate major...
Aug 25, 2015


Nukes: never again?
The sixth and ninth of August 2015 mark the seventieth anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and...
Aug 6, 2015


Challenges facing the West – Part 5 of the World War IV Series
In this five-part series, I explore the development and scope of what I have termed World War IV. This series is based on my presentation...
Jul 21, 2015


Strong Points of the West – Part 4 of the World War IV Series
In this five-​part series, I explore the development and scope of what I term World War IV. This series is based on my presentation at...
Jul 20, 2015
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