Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts
Thursday, June 02, 2022

Blockade Running Ain't for Amateurs

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The greatest tragedies from war, both directly and indirectly, are those that were clearly foreseen, knowable, or otherwise clear as day to ...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Turkey Skunks the NATO Party

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Especially for Finland, but less so for Sweden, their neutrality in Europe is in a large measure a Cold War relic. For old NATO hands like y...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Return of the Black Sea Convoy?

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The commercial folks sure would like it ; The world's largest shipping management firm has requested that NATO provide naval escorts for...
Wednesday, March 02, 2022

NATO's Potential Russian Flashpoint May be at Sea

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Are you aware that NATO nations have already been attacked by Russia? Well, their merchant ships in the Black Sea have. If you know your Eur...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Cyprus, Greece and Egypt Move Closer Contra Turkey

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As we briefly reviewed last summer , Turkey's bullying action from the Aegean to Cyprus to Libya was having the effect of pushing surrou...
Monday, November 16, 2020

So, What Happened with Azerbaijan and Armenia?

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Some of you are keeping an eye on the latest Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, so if  I may, let me put down a few markers ...
Wednesday, October 07, 2020

Not Our War; Not Our Problem

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Today I want us to return to the same subject we covered last Wednesday; Turkish adventurism. Russia is coming in to play, as is Iran. Turke...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Scratch a Turk, You Find an Ottoman

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If you haven't noticed, Turkey is acting like it is trying to pick a fight with everyone it can reach. Details and thoughts over at USNI...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

France Returns Contra Ottoman Aggression ... I mean Turkish

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As I've been saying a lot recently, history is sticky. France has bee n  an on an off - mostly on - power in the Levant for a thousand y...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

When Treaties Die

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Treaties are only good if all sides abide by them. Bad actors on the world stage see treaties as something else - an opportunity to take a...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Russia's Libyan Public-Private Partnership Gets Some Aircover

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That horrible mess delivered to the world by Obama's " Lead from Behind" dance with Canada, the European powers, and a few al...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Syria: a Festival of Bad Options

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Time to quote myself from 2013 with regards to the Syrian Civil War; However one comes to, "Syria; not our fight" - I frankly...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Fullbore Friday

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In war, it often is not what you were designed to do. It is not what in theory what you were primarily trained, manned, and equipped to do...
Sunday, April 08, 2018

Turkey Moves in the Syrian Civil War in Afrin, With Michael Goodyear

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As the Islamic State Caliphate's territory in Syria is shrinking to just a few isolated pockets, rebel force opposing Assad lose more ...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

The Turn of the Wheel in Syria

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A great update from Michael Goodyear over as Small Wars Journal ; ...with the sharp decline in power of the Islamic State following the...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Thoughts on Turkey’s Turn

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Over at his blog, Dani Rodrick is making a point about the latest from Turkey that is about center-mass for many of us who once had a sli...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

A Pre-Thanksgiving Turkey Problem

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Hopefully everyone is keeping at least a glancing eye on the developments around Mosul, especially the fact that Turkey has an outpost there...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Turkey, by the Numbers

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As reported by Reuters via Conflict news, take a look at this little datapoint ; BREAKING: Turkey's prime minister says 40,029 dete...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Turkey ,Erdoğan & its Miltary - with Ryan Evans on Midrats

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The events of the last week in Turkey brought that critically important nation in to focus, and we are going to do the same thing for this...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Thinking Turkey

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Hope for the best, plan for the worst. I'm discussing over at USNIBlog. Come visit .
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