Canadian Forces get a strategic lift
“Good morning, Team C-17! Or should I say bonjour?” It is early April...
The lessons of modern stability campaigns
With more than a decade of stability campaigns under its belt, it may seem rhetorical for the Canadian Forces to...
Future Force: Incorporating more than the military
While tensions over the Taiwan Strait and Kashmir still threaten to draw nations into conflict, military forecasters believe that any...
A glimpse into Afghanistan
A Canadian medic aiding a badly injured Afghan child; a soldier in conversation with village elders; Canadian troops emerging from...
Buying local opens business in Kabul
With all the money pouring into United Nations’ missions, it’s eye-opening just how little reaches the people directly affected by...
Music to their ears: A Pashtu-Canadian voice in Kandahar
Every minute they are listening to us is a minute they are not...
A military solution to fostering civil service capacity
In August 2005, Colonel Mike Capstick led a 15-person Canadian Forces team into complex, dangerous and very unfamiliar territory –...
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...