MILNEWS.ca Highlights – April 11, 2017

#CANvsISIL

• “Operation IMPACT: An interview with the Commanding Officer of the Role 2 medical facility”
• DND’s latest on Operation IMPACT

#Syria

• “Mattis: U.S. Missile Strike on Syrian Airbase Was Measured Response” (US DoD Info-machine) – “Statement by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on the U.S. Military Response to the Syrian Government’s Use of Chemical Weapons” – “Mad Dog Mattis Claims Sha’irat Strike Destroyed 20% of Syria’s Jets” – “U.S. says strike hits 20 percent of Syria’s operational aircraft”
• “Trump Calls Commanders of Ships That Executed Syrian Strike” (US DoD Info-machine)
• “Statement of the Russian Defence Ministry spokesman on the missile strike carried out by the US Navy against the Shayrat Air Base in Syria” (RUS MoD)
• “The Khan Sheikhoun Chemical Attack — Who Bombed What and When?” (bellingcat)
• “U.S. Cruise Missile Strikes in Syria – Brief Analysis” (Russian Military Analysis blog)
• “Status Unclear of US-Russia Hotline for Syrian Airspace”
• “Trudeau says path to peace in Syria doesn’t include Assad” – “Syria’s future can’t include Bashar Assad, Trudeau says at D-Day beach” – “Trudeau ratchets up rhetoric on removing al-Assad after chemical attack” – “Canada PM open to tougher Russia sanctions amid Syria crisis” – “Canada jumps on bandwagon of countries mulling tougher Russia sanctions” – “Canada Prime Minister ready to expand anti-Russian sanctions”
• “White House Sees No Way for Syria’s Assad to Stay in Power”
• “U.S. official: Russia knew Syrian chemical attack was coming” – “Official: Russia knew Syrian chemical attack was coming” – “Report: Russia Knew About Syria’s Chemical Attack in Advance” – “Russia knew of upcoming Syrian chemical attack – media”
• “Trudeau blâme en partie la Russie pour l’attaque chimique en Syrie”
• “What will it take for Putin to dump Assad?”
• “U.S. takes hard line on Syria as Tillerson meets with G-7”
• “After Syria attack, Tillerson vows to defend innocents”
• “Mixed signals for China, India from Russia’s S-400 in Syria”
• “Whew! Russian Aerospace Forces Will Not Be Used For Air Defense In Syria” (To Inform is to Influence blog)
• “Without Pantsir, Buk and Tor, S-400s Alone Not Enough to Cover Syria’s Skies”
• “Are Syria’s Chemical Weapons Iraq’s Missing WMD? Obama’s Director of Intelligence Thought So.”
• “Syria chemical attack: why Russia blocks the UN Security Council resolution?”
• “How Obama’s Syrian Chemical Weapons Deal Fell Apart”
• Commentary  “On Syria, an Administration in Disagreement With Itself” (New York Times editorial) – “Globe editorial: With Syria attack, Donald Trump comes into focus” – “Trump Doctrine: Do what feels good now” – “Kelly McParland: The good news — Trump’s learning. Bad news: the missiles were the easy part” – “Wark: Trump and Syria – After cruise missiles, what?”

#Ukraine

• “Canadian and Turkish inspectors to perform observation flight in Ukraine” (UKR MoD)
• “Latvian instructors train a new group of Ukrainian military in Lviv oblast” (UKR MoD)
• “Poroshenko approves annual national program under auspices of NATO-Ukraine commission for 2017”
• “Intl Court of Justice to announce decision on provisional measures in litigation between Russia, Ukraine on April 19”  – “Hague court announces date of decision on Russia over Ukraine”
• “Police starts investigation of explosion in Kyiv downtown” – “Explosive Device Fragments Found at Central Kiev Blast Site” – “Explosion occurs in Kyiv downtown at night” – “Blast rocks central Kyiv overnight (Photo, video)”
• Ooopsie …  “Commander had to open fire at drunk soldiers in ATO zone, one officer injured, — HQ”
• Updates From All Sides  “Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 9 April 2017” – “ATO News: Situation Update, east of Ukraine as of morning, April 11, 2017” (UKR MoD) – “ATO News: Situation Update, east of Ukraine as of morning, April 10, 2017” (UKR MoD) – UKR govt ATO map, 10 April 2017 – “ATO HQ reports on 64 shelling attacks on its positions with five wounded servicemen” – “Donbas conflict: 28 attacks over past day, two Ukrainian servicemen wounded”– “Militants launched 64 attacks on Ukrainian troops in Donbas in last day” – “LPR reports four ‘silence regime’ violations by Kiev fighters”
• “Ukraine’s Army receives Т-64 tank, – video”
• “Moscow Opens Criminal Case Against Two Russians for Right Sector Involvement” – “Two Russians accused of fighting on side of Ukraine’s far-right group in Donbass”
• “Comment by the Information and Press Department on the latest provocations by Ukrainian nationalists in Kiev” (RUS MFA)
• “Rada proposes measure to redefine Crimea’s status”
• “Fake: Kyiv to Classify Crimea and Donbas Residents as Terrorists”
• “Poroshenko wants Donbas coal to be seized if imported from Russia”

Cold War 2.0

• “The Primer on Russia’s “Active Measures,” Its Information Warfare Strategy”
• “Congratulations to President-elect of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov” (RUS President info-machine)
• “S-500: Russia’s Super Weapon That Could Kill the B-2, F-22, or F-35?”
• “White Swans: Russia to Churn Out 30-50 Tu-160M2 Strategic Bombers Annually”
• “Russia’s Admiral Grigorovich Frigate to Serve in Mediterranean Until Summer”
• “Russia to Carry Out Observation Flights Over US, Canada” – “US, Czech Experts to Fly Over Russia Under Open Skies Treaty”
• “Huge Russian torpedo found on beach in Lithuania”
• “How Lithuania Is Doubling Down on NATO to Counter Russia Threat”
• “German Bundeswehr – Enhanced Forward Presence (in LTU)” (video)
• “Lithuanian and Netherlands Defence Ministers underscored the necessity to implement the Warsaw decisions and readiness to counter information attacks” (LTU MoD)
• “Russia may offer to ease cooperation terms in (LVA) border areas”
• “Belarus crackdown throws U.S. sanctions relief in doubt”
• “About 500 paratroopers taking part in Belarusian-Russian army exercise”
• “Belarus to unveil new family of wheeled armored vehicles at MILEX-2017”
• “Latvia calls on Belarus to resolve issues impeding mutual trade”
• “U.S. Navy sends strike group toward Korean Peninsula” – “Carl Vinson Strike Group Departs Singapore for Western Pacific” (US DoD Info-machine)
• “US Top Diplomat Tillerson Claims China Ready for ‘Action’ on North Korea”
• “150,000 Chinese Troops Mass on N. Korean Border”
• “DPRK Foreign Ministry Issues Spox Statement on Carrier Strike Group” (North Korea Leadership Watch) – “KPA General Staff Issues Spox Statement Defending Military Exercises, Missile Drills” (North Korea Leadership Watch)
• “Will Chinese Dominance of the South China Sea Necessarily Lead to Shipping Disruption?”
• “India Set to Patrol Malacca Straits That Lead to South China Sea”
• “Chinese navy rescues Tuvaluan ship from pirates in Gulf of Aden”
• “Somalia’s Pirates Are Back in Business”

Internal Security

• “Bitcoin and The Dark Web’s Threat to National Security”

What’s Canada Buying?

• Wanted:  “Space-based radar surface moving target applications research”
• Wanted:  “GLOVES, COMBAT, Temperate”
• Wanted:  “SEMI AUTOMATIC SNIPER WEAPON BIPOD”

Veterans & Helping Veterans (or Not?)

• “Former Canadian soldier wants to be a reservist despite PTSD”
• “Bridging the great divide: Canada Company & Veteran Friendly Transition Program (VFTP) partner to reduce tough transitions for Vets”

Other

• “Quebec City man to become Canada’s first French-speaking Muslim military chaplain”
• “Inside the chase: Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Saskatoon in the eastern Pacific”
• “Warships deploy for Asia and Poseidon Cutlass 17”
• “Neptune Trident – A rewarding experience for RCN sailors”
• “HMCS Oriole sets sail for Canada 150 celebrations”
• “Governor General honours military personnel”

World War One

• Colonel Ted’s take for #Vimy100:  “Our challenge … There is something important about “Vimyism” and it has nothing to do with glorifying war … it has to do with ordinary Canadians, including French Canadians, rallying together, as Canadians, and then, under Canadian leaders, doing some hard things better than the Americans, British or French or Germans could do them. Our challenge is to separate the wheat from the chaff and remember and honour those important parts …”
• “A century later, Canada still identifying its WWI dead”
• “After Vimy: Did Canada really find its independence in 1922 battle it refused to fight? — The Chanak Affair: 5 years after WWI, Canada finally said no to participating in one of Britain’s wars …”

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