In context: Canada’s Afghan contribution
It is absolutely astounding the angles observers and critics of Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan will focus upon, what they......
Re-evaluating the UN effect on Cyprus
If the battle of Lepanto had been won a few months earlier perhaps Famagasta would not have fallen. Its Venetian......
Restricting an unconventional response
Afghanistan & the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare Hy S. Rothstein Naval Institute Press, 2006, $34.95 Afghanistan has become an......
Lessons of a foreign affair: Somalia’s influence on the Afghanistan mission
When Grant Dawson surveys the efforts of Canada’s holistic approach to defence, diplomacy and development in Afghanistan, he sees a...
Networking: The growing role for advanced sensors
A mobile network of robotic sensor agents able to provide reconnaissance when a bomb squad responds to a threat phoned...
Adequate imagination? Anticipating future threats
In the past decade or so, and certainly since 9/11, most western intelligence services have shifted their attentions and resources......
Marshalling forces: Al-Qaeda revival requires local focus
Five years ago, 19 terrorists hijacked four airplanes and changed the course of history. Any doubts that the threat to......
Re-thinking intelligence analyst training
Canada has not had commissions of inquiry or reviews of analytic capability – nothing of the scale of our allies......
Masters of a new domain
“The structure of modern terrorist organizations in many ways is compatible with the structure of the internet…the means of communication......