Canada’s Air Force at a crossroads
Recent government announcements about the intent to procure several new fleets of aircraft for the Canadian Forces are an encouraging......
Long service medals
This is Part II of a series on long service medals. Part I appeared in the August/September issue. The Colonial......
Understanding Haiti
Haiti: Hope for a Fragile State Edited by Yasmine Shamsie and Andrew S. Thompson Wilfrid Laurier University Press, April 2006,......
Assessing Conservative foreign policy
When Parliament resumed sitting on September 18, the two most contentious issues facing the Conservative government were gun control and......
Protecting Alberta’s critical energy infrastructure
With Osama bin Laden’s 2004 call for attacks on Arab oil and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent reminder to the......
Operation Active Endeavour: NATO’s impact on maritime domain awareness
The past five years have witnessed tremendous growth in global interest over maritime security, a dynamic in which NATO’s Operation......
A pan-government approach to marine security
“In today’s global environment, no one agency can effectively deal with the asymmetrical threats we face,” Ray Oliver acknowledges. “The......
Countering a narco-economy
As Canadian troops combat the Taliban over rugged terrain in the isolated, rural communities of Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province, they are...
NORAD: Renewing a unique partnership
For almost 50 years, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has served as a unique bi-national partnership. No such......
Transforming NORAD
Eric Findley clearly enjoys a good movie and likes to pepper his presentations with Hollywood references, but the deputy commander...