Internal Security
#CANinIRQ/Mid East – Op IMPACT
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- “Iraq’s new prime minister faces expectations to change, rebuild the country”
- “Iraqi Army Strengthens Control of Country’s Border With Syria – Statement”
- “Russia Presses Europe to Break With Trump and Help Rebuild Syria”
- “US up to plunge in dangerous game in Syria with idea of unified Kurdistan, warns Lavrov” (RUS media)
- “Russia has information on upcoming chemical weapons provocations in Idlib — envoy” (RUS media)
- “Sacramento ISIS suspect denies any involvement, lawyers say”
#CHN/Pacific Rim
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- “Five Eyes intelligence alliance builds coalition to counter China”
- “United States, Intelligence Allies Expand Effort to Contain Chinese Influence”
- “U.S. senators urge Justin Trudeau to drop China’s Huawei from Canada’s upcoming 5G network”
- “US senators urge Trudeau to block Huawei from 5G”
- “US lawmakers urge Canada to snub China’s Huawei from 5G network design out of ‘grave concerns’ over US security”
- “China’s military recruits private (sector) experts to work on defence technology projects” (CHN mil media)
- “Cold War 2.0 … President Trump seems hell bent on a full blown Cold War with China; and he seems intent on forcing America’s allies to sign on to it, too. I’m sure most thinking people would like a world dominated by Xi Jinping even less than we like one dominated by Donald Trump but I’m not convinced that Cold War 2.0 is either desirable or winnable …” (Col. Ted)
- “China-Russia relationship a role model for neighboring countries” (CHN mil media)
#LVA/Europe – Op REASSURANCE/Cold War 2.0
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- “Putin ordered nuclear exercise with launches of multiple missiles — Ballistic missiles were launched from submarines in the Barents- and Okhotsk Seas. Long-range aircraft were also in the air with dummy nukes …”
- “What happened to the ICBM part of the exercise?” (Russian strategic nuclear forces blog)
- “A Europeanized NATO? The Alliance Contemplates the Trump Era and Beyond”
- “Civil society supports NATO nuclear rethink” (Ceasefire.ca)
- “The Latvian Russian Union (LKS) and Headquarters for the Protection of Russian Schools (HPRS) organized a demonstration in the capital city of Riga, on September 15. The publicized goal of the event was to “prevent educational reform in Latvia, which will lead to a total degradation of ethnic Russians living in Latvia, and their full assimilation with the Latvian population” (Tvzvezda.ru, September 15). Russian propagandists have claimed that extinction of Russian in the school curriculum will result in Russian children turning into “real Europeans with a Latvian mentality” …”
- “NATO robust, spending to increase, says (EST) foreign minister Mikser”
#UKR – Op UNIFIER
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- “Visit to NATO by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine” (NATO info-machine)
- “Poroshenko: Conscripts not to be sent to front line”
- “Poroshenko says conscripts won’t be sent to front”
- “Volker says Russia continues to fuel fighting in eastern Ukraine”
- “Volker says he discussed with Surkov UN peacekeeping mission to Donbas”
- “President checked the readiness of troops to deflect possible Russian aggression from the Sea of Azov” (UKR Pres info-machine)
- “Poroshenko checking Ukrainian army’s readiness to repel enemy on Azov Sea coast”
- “NATO Parliamentary Assembly to come to Ukraine to discuss Azov Sea”
- “Ukrainian nazi and drug addict expelled from LPR – State Security” (pro-RUS rebel info-machine)
- “DPR People’s Militia: Poroshenko reveals true self clearing army to use any weapons in Donbass” (pro-RUS rebel info-machine)
- “Ukraine: Crossing the Line of Contact: Monitoring Report, September 2018” (UN High Commissioner for Refugees)
- “Prayers Answered: Ukrainians Greet Church Split With Open Arms, Despite Moscow’s Warnings”
- “Amid Church Rift, Kremlin Vows To ‘Protect Interests’ Of Faithful In Ukraine”
- “Ukrainian MFA comments on Kremlin’s statements on ‘protecting interests of Orthodox Christians’ in Ukraine”
#MLI – Op PRESENCE
Other Military News
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- “Back to barracks: A Canadian commander on returning to the military post-9/11”
- “Canadian submarines conduct highly successful simultaneous deployments” (RCN info-machine)
- “Snyper drone clears path for future systems” (RCN info-machine)
- “Robotic weapon system puts soldiers’ skills to the test” (Canadian Army Today)
- “Ottawa’s mercenary world of pro- military lobbying” (rabble.ca)
- “Peace movement is on the march again” (rabble.ca)
