Great Lakes foundry’s almost forgotten aviation arsenal
Fourteen hundred fighters for the RAF, 800 dive-bombers for the US Navy and Marines, and G-23s for the Spanish Republican...
CANAMP proposes national investment in JSS bid
It’s not hard for Frank Smith to imagine what the Joint Support Ship (JSS) project, the navy’s largest build in...
Improvised explosive devices: Lessons from Northern Ireland
Special Kind of Courage: 321 EOD Squadron – Battling the Bombers Chris Ryder Methuen, 2006, 334 pages, $19.95 “Bombs: Taliban’s...
Evolving the RCMP’s counterterrorism responsibility
It is almost a cliché to observe that law enforcement has had to change how it does business to ensure...
From theory to policy: The strategic engagement of S&T
In April 2007, the Department of National Defence released its first-ever Defence Science and Technology Strategy, focusing not only on...
The China conundrum: To engage or contain?
China is central to the new reality of the Pacific; a profoundly poor country yet quite capable of holding us...
Southward Bound: Harper shifts focus in hemisphere
Changes of direction in Canadian foreign policy are not usually signalled by leaks to the press, especially not under the...
Common Narrative: Canada’s integrated approach to Afghanistan
As the federal government strives for success in Afghanistan, there’s been a growing need for an integrated approach to the...
Lost in translation: Understanding tribal culture
Come Back to Afghanistan Said Hyder Akbar, Bloomsbury, 2005, 337pages, $14.50 The twelve-year old Pathan male shot his father’s killer...
Surfboard SEALs: A Canadian’s concept for a sea reconnaissance unit
Few among Canada’s military have enjoyed the distinction of creating a unit and then leading it into combat, but an...