Passionate memoir about service and sacrifice
A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War General Rick Hillier HarperCollins Publishers, 2009, 498 pages, $34.99 General......
Inside Industry
Navy tests UAV launch and recovery The Canadian Navy recently completed the first launch and recovery of an unmanned aerial......
SitRep
Don’t shoot the messenger David met Goliath at a recent cyber security conference in Gatineau. If capturing data from Goliath’s......
If Canada is in NATO, why is NATO not in Canada?
Canada has been intimately involved in European security and defence since 1914. Almost two million Canadians served in both world......
COIN of the realm: Training for counter insurgency operations
As the two CH-146 Griffons bank over scattered scrub and descend into a clearing, soldiers emerge from the newly constructed......
Countering the IED
The improvised explosive device, or IED, is the deadliest weapon in the arsenal of Afghanistan’s insurgents, and they know how......
Flexibility key to future naval fleet
In the fall of 2007, the United States Navy released “A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower,” a forward looking......
Converging realities: The merger of simulated training into operations
While the merging of real and virtual worlds may hold intriguing possibilities for how you spend your recreational time, that......
Mobilizing the will to intervene
More than fifteen years after the appalling slaughter of the Rwandan Genocide, in which no less than 800,000 innocent civilians......
A new paradigm for law enforcement: Closing the loop on national security
Eight years have passed since the tragedy of 9/11, an event that fundamentally changed the national security landscape. In that......