Archives: Module 5 – Forecasting Emerging Issues: Intelligence Estimates, Scenarios, Risk, and Foreign Policy

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Promises and pitfalls of our Islamic State mission

On Monday Canada tabled its new ISIL mission. There’s much to applaud. But questions remain. Canada’s pledge of over a billion dollars in humanitarian assistance is the plan’s specialty. This is a generous and necessary offer. The money will go towards sheltering and assisting refugees fleeing the combined barbarity of ISIL and the Syrian... More

Friday, February 5, 2016

Libya must be part of the plan to beat Islamic State

Canada’s new government will soon unveil its Islamic State strategy. But there’s one issue we haven’t yet heard much about: Libya. As Canadians continue to explore the scope and nature of our conflict with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, our allies are already moving on to a new front. Canada needs to... More

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