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...
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...